Sanders, Bernie. “I spoke to AI agent Claude.” YouTube, uploaded by Senator Bernie Sanders, 19 Mar. 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
In this video, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sits down to have a conversation with Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude. Sanders prompts Claude with questions, and the chatbot replicates a woman’s voice in its voice mode responses. The topics of interest that Sanders brings up include the impact of AI on privacy, the way AI uses Americans’ data, and whether a moratorium on AI data centers would be appropriate. Claude produces thorough, presumably factual, and seemingly “honest” answers to the senator’s questions. For Sanders, the conversation seems to highlight concerns about the lack of regulation of in the AI industry and how the democratic process is affected as a result.
This video captured my interest because of how it mixes political messaging with a demonstration of how AI works. Throughout Sanders’s interaction with Claude, he seems able to steer the chatbot toward responses that align with his views. AI’s prevalence, it seems, can be used as a political tool in more ways than one. It opens up potential further research on the relationship between artificial intelligence and political propaganda.
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