Draft:Lincoln 2.0

Lincoln 2.0 is an idea that in the near-future someone will construct an Artificial General Intelligence and run it as a candidate for political office.

The foundational ideas for an AI candidate based on a historic figure were first written in a Huffington Post article. of the same name in 2015. A more detailed exploration of the topic was published in the Mensa Bulletin in 2023.

A 2024 Baltimore Sun op-ed further explored this idea, but was written for a general audience.

Two articles in Campaigns & Elections studied the possibility of AI candidates, but from the perspective of a political professional. The first article detailed a near-future of AI candidates and how the campaign team would be structured. The second article outlined the implications of an AI presidential candidate. Along these lines, a Business of Politics podcast examines the issues political professionals will experience when they build an AI candidate based on a historic leader.

In 2024 an AI candidate filed to run for the Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming