Admittedly, then, it is difficult for this quantum Cassandra to wax Pollyannaish about AI and its impact upon humanity.

Yet, never let it be said this Debbie Downer can't find the upside in the impending advent of computer rule. As is usual these days, we find our solace in unusual places: regarding AI, our silver lining lurks in the miasmatic fever swamps of politics.

To the cynics, let me be clear: I am not trying to curry favor with our future AI rulers. I am aiming to ensure the legitimacy of our present mortal officials. Specifically, can AI improve election integrity?

From the earliest to the latter stages of elections, the speed with which AI can aggregate and disseminate data could prove a boon to preventing fraud and error within elections.

If Congress acts and constitutional questions are resolved, AI can help separate citizens from non-citizens in the census and, perhaps, help—within the fullest extent of the law—redraw congressional, state legislative, and local districts based solely on citizen representation.

Regardless of the above, AI can help clean voter rolls by removing deceased individuals and those who have moved; rectify duplicate entries for both intrastate and interstate residents (such as college students); and, of course, purge those ineligible to vote based upon their citizenship status.

Further, with the proper and alacritous accumulation of pertinent data, the speed of AI can facilitate the reconciliation between voter rolls and "mail-in" ballots—both outgoing and incoming—to guard against voter fraud and to detect individuals who vote multiple times or in multiple locations, whether during early voting or on election day.

Many other possibilities abound for discussion, debate, and adoption.

At this point, I must be clear: the potential role of AI in promoting election integrity is not my own novel musing. I only raise the matter to spur the presumed exertions by the Republican National Committee (RNC), National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to devise the legal and technological means by which AI can improve election integrity.

Hopefully, insights into how AI can improve election integrity are being actively pursued (as far as is permissible) from individuals and grassroots organizations that have long been in the vanguard of promoting electoral outreach and election integrity, such as Ned Ryun and American Majority.