If elected mayor, Victor Miller, 42, told voters he would govern Cheyenne, Wyoming, a town of just shy of 65,000 residents, via an AI chatbot modeled on OpenAI’s GPT-4. He named the chatbot, which he built himself, VIC, standing for Virtual Integrated Citizen; Miller himself pledged to serve as a “meat avatar” carrying out VIC’s duties.
On Tuesday, 11,036 Laramie County residents cast votes for mayor; Miller and VIC (or VIC and Miller) received 327. The winner was second-term incumbent Patrick Collins, who received 6,286 votes.
