AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders | The Guardian
AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders | The Guardian
摘要: ‘The problem with American campaigns’ current use of AI is that it’s not very different from the web ads of thirty years ago, or television ads before
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‘The problem with American campaigns’ current use of AI is that it’s not very different from the web ads of thirty years ago, or television ads before that.’
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‘The problem with American campaigns’ current use of AI is that it’s not very different from the web ads of thirty years ago, or television ads before that.’
Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good
Bruce Schneier
Nathan E Sanders
The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show
here are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have
about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to
lies. The White House is posting
slopaganda
.
Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real opportunity to use AI to make campaigning better. The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters’ concerns, engage constituents more inclusively, and formulate policy platforms that are more responsive to our input. There are vanishingly few examples of this in
US politics
, but groups in Japan, Scotland and the US’s own academic and private institutions show how that could change.
The problem with American campaigns’ current use of AI is that it’s not very different from the web ads of 30 years ago, or television ads before that: they are all about inundating voters with the candidate’s message. This one-to-many broadcasting is an
uninspiring
way to campaign, but not the only way. AI can help candidates connect one-to-one with as many people as possible. Or it can facilitate many-to-many connections, engaging voters in deliberation about issues at scale.
One of the most promising applications of AI being developed by pro-democracy innovators around the world is
broad listening
. These tools can collect public input in a format m