OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked in a U.S. Senate hearing if AI language models such as ChatGPT could be used to manipulate voters. Altman was concerned that such models could be used to persuade and engage in one-on-one interactions with voters. Political technologists are developing a machine called Clogger which uses AI to change people’s voting behavior. Clogger would use a language model to generate tailored messages, reinforcement learning to generate messages that become increasingly more likely to change a voter’s vote, and reinforcement learning to learn from feedback.