26 Articles about Politics & AI

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Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections – Axios

No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans – Semafor

Sophistication of AI-backed operation targeting senator points to future of deepfake schemes – Associated Press  

US intel says AI is boosting, but not revolutionizing, foreign efforts to influence the 2024 elections - CNN

Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections – Axios

Rethinking ‘Checks and Balances’ for the A.I. Age – New York Times

AI Could Still Wreck the Presidential Election – The Atlantic 

How A.I., QAnon and Falsehoods Are Reshaping the Presidential Race - New York Times

Uncle Sam wants to know: What can your country do for AI? – Semafor

California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI – ABC News

AI Regulation Is Coming. Fortune 500 Companies Are Bracing for Impact. – Wall Street Journal  

Harris will use human Donald Trump stand-ins, not AI, for debate prep – Semafor

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court? – Associated Press

Breaking Down Global Government Spending on AI – Enterprise AI 

How Innovative Is China in AI? – Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter – Washington Post 

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election – NPR  

States are writing their own rules for AI in health care  - Axios

Political consultant fined $6M for using AI to fake Biden’s voice in robocalls to voters – New York Post 

AI enters politics: 3 Pa. House candidates used ChatGPT to shape voters guide responses – Lancaster Online

Israel establishes national expert forum to guide AI policy and regulation – Jerusalem Post  

France appoints first AI minister amid political unrest as it aims to become global AI leader – Euro News  

Can politicians benefit from claiming real scandals are deep fakes? (video) – CNN

27 Articles about Politics & AI

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FCC pursues new rules for AI in political ads, but changes may not take effect before the election - Associated Press

As AI entrenches itself in the political world, discerning real from fake is critical – NBC Boston

Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city – Washington Post

Brands Love Influencers (Until Politics Get Involved) – New York Times

What AI is doing to campaigns - Politico

See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes – Washington Post

Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower – New York Times

Trump's crowd-photo claims speed AI-driven truth decay – Axios  

The brewing storm over California’s AI bill – Semafor

Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info - Washington Post

With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans - New York Times 

A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor – Associated Press  

A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation - New York Times 

California is a battleground for AI bills, as Trump plans to curb regulation - Washington Post 

Censorship slows China's AI advances – Axios  

US agents shut down huge Russian AI bot farm as fears over misinformation grow – Semafor  

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too - New York Times 

The AI Industry starts to focus on a potential Trump presidency – Semafor  

Forget deepfake videos. Text and voice are this election’s true AI threat. – The Hill

The AI election is here. Regulators can’t decide whose problem it is. - Washington Post 

Generative AI poses Threat to election security, intelligence agencies warn – CBS News

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ – Wired

UN adopts first resolution on artificial intelligence – Associated Press

Few AI deepfakes identified in EU elections, Microsoft president says – Reuters

The danger of deepfakes is not what you think – Financial Times 

J.D. Vance’s A.I. Agenda: Reduce Regulation – New York Times 

Over 80% of China’s businesses already use generative AI - Fortune

Trump Promotes A.I. Images to Falsely Suggest Taylor Swift Endorsed Him - New York Times

18 Articles about Politics & AI

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The dos and don’ts of campaigning with AI – Washington Post

Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI — Associated Press

Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election – Reuters

AI sharpens political targeting in US presidential race – Voice of America

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes – New York Times

What is propaganda? What's a deep fake? And can they influence elections? – Tennessean  

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 - Washington Post

Political operative and firms behind Biden AI robocall sued for thousands - The Guardian

‘Inflection point’: AI meme wars hit India election, test social platforms – Al Jazeera

Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide – Associated Press

With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and investigate AI audio deepfakes – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Underdog Who Beat Biden in American Samoa Used AI in Election Campaign – Wall Street Journal  

AI call quiz: see if you can spot the sham audio of Trump and Biden – The Guardian

Fake images made to show Trump with Black supporters highlight concerns around AI and elections – Associated Press   

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it – Reuters Institute

San Francisco Chronicle AI will shake up democracy — for better or worse – SF Chronicle

FBI warns that foreign adversaries could use AI to spread disinformation about US elections - Washington Post 

AI Threatens Elections by Capitalizing on Human Foibles, Officials Warn – Wall Street Journal

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The 3 Things Far-Right & Far-Left Political News Sources have in Common

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When researchers analyzed almost 6,000 political news stories produced by partisan and nonpartisan media outlets in 2021, three things became clear:

  • Media outlets with extreme biases — regardless of whether it was a conservative or liberal bias — tended to use shorter sentences and less formal language than nonpartisan outlets.

  • Mainstream news organizations, as a whole, wrote at a higher reading level.

  • Far-right and far-left outlets took a more negative tone than nonpartisan outlets. They generally had a lower ratio of positive to negative words.

The researchers describe their findings in a paper forthcoming in Journalism Studies, “At the Extremes: Assessing Readability, Grade Level, Sentiment, and Tone in US Media Outlets.”

Read the full article from Journalist’s Resources here.

the strongest political bias of all

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The strongest bias in American politics is not a liberal bias or a conservative bias; it is a confirmation bias, or the urge to believe only things that confirm what you already believe to be true. Not only do we tend to seek out and remember information that reaffirms what we already believe, but there is also a “backfire effect,” which sees people doubling down on their beliefs after being presented with evidence that contradicts them. So, where do we go from here? There’s no simple answer, but the only way people will start rejecting falsehoods being fed to them is by confronting uncomfortable truths.

Emma Roller writing in the New York Times

Digital's impact on Politics

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In party politics, some worry that the digital targeting of voters might end up reducing the democratic process to a marketing exercise. Ever more data and better algorithms, they fret, could lead politicians to ignore those unlikely to vote for them. And in cities it is not clear that more data will ensure that citizens become more engaged.

When the internet first took off, the hope was that it would make the world a more democratic place. The fear now is that the avalanche of digital information might push things the other way. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a data expert at the University of Oxford, sums up the problem: “Data are mainly helping those who already have information power.”

The Economist, March 26, 2016