Futurist Predicts Trump Approval Ratings Will Be Replaced by AI-Powered 'Public Sentience' Scores by 2035
SAN FRANCISCO — In a startling new forecast, futurist Dr. Elena Vance predicts that within the next decade, the metric of 'trump approval' will become obsolete, replaced by a dynamic, neural-network-driven index called the 'Public Sentience Score' (PSS). Speaking at the Global Futures Summit, Vance argued that by 2035, traditional political polling—historically used to measure figures like the former president—will be supplanted by real-time, AI-mined emotional data from wearable tech and social media micro-expressions. "We won't ask voters what they think; the cloud will already know," Vance declared. Critics warn the PSS could be weaponized to preemptively shape public opinion, turning democracy into a feedback loop of manufactured consent. The first major test of this system is expected during the 2036 U.S. presidential election cycle, effectively rendering the phrase 'trump approval' a relic of an analog past.