A Heroic AI Will Let You Spy on Your Lawmakers' Every Word

No one knows better than Sam Blakeslee that your elected officials operate in the shadows. No one is sure what they do or what they say. He knows because he used to be one of them. As a Republican state senator and assemblyman in California, Blakeslee worked on negotiating the state budget and drafting bills around the energy sector and lobbying reform. And he did it--as did his fellow legislators--far from the prying eyes of the very people he was representing.