With primaries underway, and voters returning in the fall for a high-stakes presidential election, it is likely that many people will be � knowingly or unknowingly � using artificial intelligence platforms to answer questions of where, when and how to vote. In a recent study, we found misleading information about elections abound on these AI platforms. It’s up to tech companies to rein in these discrepancies, but we also need government regulation to hold them accountable.
Voters may use bots like ChatGPT, or search engines that incorporate AI, or the vast array of new AI-based apps and services such as Microsoft Copilot, which is integrated into office software such as Word and Excel, and was found last year to be spewing election lies.
Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and founder of Proof News, a new nonprofit journalism studio.
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