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