Back in March, we all couldn’t help but watch with trepidation as Senator Bernie Sanders sat in a darkened room and interrogated a smartphone running an instance of the Claude chatbot, and then later said he had spoken to an “AI agent.” The resulting video looked like a scene from an A24 horror movie. It was an unsettling stunt from a not-so-tech-savvy politician, but it was at the very least an elected official trying something when it came to AI. So much