Is AI’s impact on elections being overblown? Three researchers think so in this opinion piece published in the MIT Tech Review.
Highlights:
• “AI is being used to try to influence electoral processes, but these efforts have not been fruitful.”
• “Why were these initial speculations about AI-enabled electoral interference so off (…) ? The short answer: Because they ignored decades of research on the limited influence of mass persuasion campaigns, the complex determinants of voting behaviors, and the indirect and human-mediated causal role of technology.”
• “Yet we should remember that there’s a cost to overreaction based on ill-founded assumptions, especially when other critical issues go unaddressed.”
👉Read more here: https://technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/1103464/ai-impact-elections-overblown/
Highlights:
• “AI is being used to try to influence electoral processes, but these efforts have not been fruitful.”
• “Why were these initial speculations about AI-enabled electoral interference so off (…) ? The short answer: Because they ignored decades of research on the limited influence of mass persuasion campaigns, the complex determinants of voting behaviors, and the indirect and human-mediated causal role of technology.”
• “Yet we should remember that there’s a cost to overreaction based on ill-founded assumptions, especially when other critical issues go unaddressed.”
👉Read more here: https://technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/1103464/ai-impact-elections-overblown/
MIT Technology Review
AI’s impact on elections is being overblown
And the focus on AI is distracting us from some deeper and longer-lasting threats to democracy.