A third party creates these "skills" that hold the various personas and can interact with user on their query using any of the 3 suggested questions. The skills are the default interactions for political queries. That way the AI providers get to claim they have taken responsibility but the actual burden of the performance and ideology behind the personas fall on the third party that owns the skills (ideally some ethicist institution).
On a larger scale this might not even be exclusively a politics issue but has implications on how we let AI affect choice in general.
I’m not clear on how the five perspectives in the app were generated (Libertarian, MAGA, etc.) Were they proposed by Claude? Surely there are more orientations that would make sense (e.g. Old School Republican, Social Democrat, Green, etc.) - I would expect a tool to have a “Show More” option to surface more of these, and possibly to ask the user to describe themselves in their own words (e.g., “social progressive but economic conservative”) if they don’t find something that fits them.
Yep I totally agree—there will need to be a lot of experimentation to see how users would react to being asked to choose. There might be many ways or contexts in which they don’t like it and some in which they do
A third party creates these "skills" that hold the various personas and can interact with user on their query using any of the 3 suggested questions. The skills are the default interactions for political queries. That way the AI providers get to claim they have taken responsibility but the actual burden of the performance and ideology behind the personas fall on the third party that owns the skills (ideally some ethicist institution).
On a larger scale this might not even be exclusively a politics issue but has implications on how we let AI affect choice in general.
I like that! It’s similar to some proposals for “middleware” in social media
I’m not clear on how the five perspectives in the app were generated (Libertarian, MAGA, etc.) Were they proposed by Claude? Surely there are more orientations that would make sense (e.g. Old School Republican, Social Democrat, Green, etc.) - I would expect a tool to have a “Show More” option to surface more of these, and possibly to ask the user to describe themselves in their own words (e.g., “social progressive but economic conservative”) if they don’t find something that fits them.
Yep I totally agree—there will need to be a lot of experimentation to see how users would react to being asked to choose. There might be many ways or contexts in which they don’t like it and some in which they do