TechRepublic's Dan Patterson and Daniel Scarvalone, director at Bully Pulpit Interactive, talk about how automation will be the key to the future of politics and policy. Dan Patterson: What role will AI machine learning and automation play this year and in the future? Dan Scarvalone: Machine learning has always played a role in campaigns, and the way marketers more sift through data available on current and potential customers, to figure out, "who should we be speaking to, and what should we be saying to them?" The real growth will be in the ways we use machine learning to marry with the political intuition we know, and the marketing intuition we know, regarding the best way to achieve a goal. We'll find more ways to apply decision making to each and every way a candidate spends its time.