Sam Singer knows a disaster when he sees one.
The disaster in question: Sen. Scott Wiener’s short-lived AI chatbot, a self-admitted “push the envelope” move designed to surface negative talking points about his congressional opponent, Supervisor Connie Chan, and her legislative record.
“This was an interesting communications experiment. It didn’t work. The right thing to do is to apologize and take it down,” said Singer, a veteran crisis communications expert known as the Master of Disaster. “That’s what I would tell them.”…