The Washington Post plans to cover every major race on Election Day using AI. Using an in-house build data-crunching programme called Heliograf, the Post plans to provide detailed coverage of nearly 500 contests around the U.S. Allowing their team of 60 political reporters to focus their attention on high-profile contests and races. "This will give readers Washington Post-quality coverage at all levels but will also be used to alert reporters to things that they may not see, or draw their attention to a particular race that they didn't expect to be a close one," said Jeremy Gilbert, the Post's director of strategic initiatives. The Post experimented with the software to cover events at the Rio De Janeiro Olympics this summer but will look to expand its use on Election Day. Using templates and pre-written previews, the program will automatically update stories as results come in, said Sam Han, the Post's director of data science.