The robocall campaign presents a striking irony: Musk, the world’s richest person and the CEO of a top AI company, is spending hundreds of millions of his own fortune to support Republican political campaigns and super PACs. In this case, the Texas super PAC is using an AI tool to attack taking money from the very data centers that make those kinds of calls possible.

AI robocalls are not exclusive to political campaigns — other industries such as insurance and finance are adopting them — but the calls also offer an early look at how campaigns can use conversational AI calls to conduct political persuasion at a potentially massive scale — an emerging form of political outreach that is difficult for the public to track, in part because it lacks a centralized database.

Source: AI-powered robocalls attack Talarico on data centers | CNN Politics