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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica affairs have exposed democracies to the power of algorithmic manipulation. AI now drastically influences the sacrosanct majority vote. By targeting our affects and the flaws in our judgment, AI fuels the tyranny of the majority. Are we therefore condemned to see an individual choice with little assurance dissolved in a questionable collective choice? To initiate a pleasing response that would restore all meaning to the vote, the article proposes to review not without derision the rules of the game: and if the AI simulation capabilities, instead of fooling us, instead helped us in our judgment of citizen? What if, by stretching human thought rather than digitizing it by means of AI, the simulation of an artificial candidate awakened a collective intelligence making it possible to protect citizens against the tyranny of the average?