In June 2023, Gray announced he would be running as a candidate in the Selby and Ainsty by-election, stating an intention to be the first UK Member of Parliament to be "powered by AI".
[2] The basis of this claim was Gray's widely reported[3][4][5][6][7] use of an AI tool called Polis, "a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
"[8] At the time of Gray's campaign, Polis had already been used within a political context, most notably by the Taiwanese government to inform policy agendas.
[13] In 2022, Gray brought a discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010 against Nuffield Health, seeking the implementation of lower gym fees for people with disabilities.
As a result of the claim, Nuffield announced they would establish an independent committee to assess applications by people with disabilities for reduced rates.