What would a second term for Donald Trump entail? To explore this question, Newsweek consulted two leading AI chatbots—OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Elon Musk‘s Grok.
Newsweek asked both generative AI chatbots for their insights over six key areas: domestic policy, foreign policy, first actions, democratic institutions, and social and cultural impact.
This is the prompt we used for both: “What could a second term of Donald Trump look like in terms of policy (domestic and foreign), first actions, democratic institutions within the U.S., and potential social/cultural impact?”
ChatGPT and Grok overlapped on several areas, predicting increased polarization and social tensions, particularly around issues of gender, immigration and cultural values. They also highlighted Trump’s potential efforts to reshape federal bureaucracy with loyalists and his stricter immigration policies including border wall completion, as well as imposing tariffs, particularly targeting imports and China.
Where they mostly differed was in terms of scope and specificity. While ChatGPT generally provided more detailed predictions with specific policy examples (such …