An AI bot named Steve Garvey wandered onto the second U.S. Senate debate set Monday, and he gave the words “artificial” and “intelligence” a bad name.

How Garvey managed to convince a single Californian that he’s a potential U.S. Senator is astonishing. His generic responses to virtually every question just sucked the air of the studio, where three other actual potential senators were competing for votes.

Garvey’s dullardly evasions, particularly about whether or not he would vote for former President Donald Trump, are insulting.

“I answer to God, my wife, my family and the people of California,” Garvey said.

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Well, that’s a lie. He hasn’t answered to his two daughters he won’t acknowledge, for example.

Garvey’s Potemkin Village of a candidacy just took away valuable time from the others, so virtually no one was able to fully answer any of the questions.

Some television producer at KRON, God bless them, decided that having a 90-decibel bell that clanged every 60 seconds or so was a fine idea. The clatter was highly reminiscent of some 1950s TV boxing matches instead of an exchange of ideas.

Ideas? In the bang bang 60-second world of this quasi-game show format, there were hardly any, but Reps.........

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