US presidential debates should run a parallel AI bot debate alongside the human one — complement not replace. Good idea or not?

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Hear me out. Each presidential candidate builds an AI agent trained on their full policy record — every speech, every vote, every position paper. While the candidates debate each other live on stage, their bots debate each other simultaneously on a separate stream, arguing the same questions purely on policy substance with no time limits, no interruptions, no moderator cutting anyone off. The two formats would complement each other rather than compete. The live debate captures what it always ...