That’s one way to have a debate opponent.

Reuters reports that Bentley Hensel, a “long-shot congressional challenger” in Virginia, made an AI chatbot of incumbent Don Beyer to stand in if Beyer doesn’t show up to a debate:

DonBot, as the AI is playfully known, is being trained on Beyer’s official websites, press releases, and data from the Federal Election Commission. The text-based AI is based on an API from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.