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The unavoidable conclusion is that AI will make lobbying more guileful, and perhaps more successful.

While the idea of monied interests incorporating AI assistive technologies into their lobbying remains hypothetical, specific machine-learning technologies exist today that would enable them to do so.

In the context of AI-assisted lobbying, political actors like legislators and lobbyists are nodes on a graph, just like users in a social network.

State laws regarding lobbying disclosure are a hodgepodge.

A lobbying disclosure scorecard created by Open Secrets, a group researching the influence of money in US politics, tracks nine states that do not even require lobbyists to report their compensation.

Finally, consider the role AI assistive technologies may have on lobbying firms themselves and the labor market for lobbyists.

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