AI Is Making Politics Easier, Cheaper and More Dangerous
Advances in AI could do serious damage to democracy by supercharging the spread of misinformation — and the cracks are already showing.
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Voters in the US and around the world are already inundated by AI-generated political content — and likely don't know it.
Click on an email asking for donations, for example, and you may be reading a message drafted by a so-called large language model — the technology behind ChatGPT. Politicians also increasingly use AI to hasten mundane but critical tasks like analyzing voter rolls, assembling mailing lists and even writing speeches.
But even more ominously, AI holds the potential to supercharge the dissemination of misinformation in political campaigns.
And it's not just in the US. AI has infiltrated politics around the world, from Germany to China.
There's some indication lawmakers are taking the threat of AI more seriously than previous technologies that were poised to upend politics.
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1 年As long as the current people are allowed to say and do the things they do with all the misinformation, politics will always be just that "full of sh*t". I think AI should run for Congress. ???? ???? #chatgpt4prez
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1 年This article says voters are seeing political content "and likely don't know it." The use of AI is sometimes disclosed and sometimes not... but does that depend on the business context? Do some business environments make disclosing the use of AI easier, and do others stigmatize it? I'm trying to answer this question in my MBA dissertation... if you have a moment to help, please consider taking this anonymous 4-minute academic survey: https://forms.office.com/e/4J3HY0NmMZ - Thanks!
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1 年We have no doubts about this. It's a zero sum game at the end of the day.
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1 年It's an AI-driven political landscape! Let's stay informed and vigilant.