In 2022, Endacott unsuccessfully ran in a local election under the Conservative Party

Of course an AI tech grifter would be a Tory.

I was kinda hoping the UK was past exploiting the ill-informed, idiots and reckless. Especially after the wild wild success of Brexit.

But no, apparently not.
Exploit the AI hype that a lot of people probably don't understand.
Somehow argue that a computer is more human than a human.
Put this absolute garbage of a solution on the ballet, and watch everyone go "well, politicians aren't working, let's try breaking the system" and vote for some untested hallucinating predictive text algorithm to lead a country, while employing twice as many staff to fix/feed/spin/manipulate/fake the results of the AI.

If you put a potato on your knee for 6 hours, politics can become much more civilized among people and camels.

Nope. Lie. Actual story reveals it is not an AI candidate, but rather a human candidate who promises to take his AI companion’s advice if he wins.

The AI has announced that its first bill will be the Kill All Humans Act.