Political polling is at a crossroads. Long relied on telephone surveys and mail-in questionnaires, the field now confronts steep declines in response rates and growing public scepticism. Pew Research found that in 1997 roughly one-third of US respondents answered polls; by 2018 that figure had shrunk to just 6 percent, a trend replicated worldwide and seriously undermining traditional polling methods. This crisis has sparked interest in artificial intelligence as a radical alternative. Harvard’s Ash Center points to AI chatbots that instantaneously scan social media, online discussions, and demographic data to summarise public sentiment, offering a potential replacement for slower, more expensive traditional surveys . In one notable study, researchers used a large language model to simulate thousands of demographics-driven human responses. Their findings showed correlations above 85 percent with real-world data on issues like abortion, though the method stumbled over newer policy matte...