The AI would assign a score for each post/comment that looks like a vote count in the reddit UI and would be treated as a vote count when performing the various kinds of rankings that Reddit supports.
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I would label that "scoring", not "voting".
But if we ignore semantics for a moment, yours is a testable hypothesis.
> reward originality, clarity, kindness, strong evidence, or creative thinking, and to downvote low effort posts, repetition, hostility, or bad faith arguments.
However, I think there are better ways to improve contributions than taking away the ability for other humans to express explicit judgment on someone's post without also having to write something.
For instance, perhaps the UI where you add your post can do real-time evaluation and suggestions for improvement (e.g. pointing out snark, personal attacks, etc.). That gives the poster the opportunity to make a different decision of what to write.
One trap with your model worth considering is that if the AI gets things wrong (e.g. gives you a negative count because it thinks you're not kind or don't give a sufficiently substantiated rebuttal in your argument), it will be very frustrating for participants and they will blame the board, not other users (who are free to disagree).