AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
TL;DR
The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The White House is posting slopaganda.
Nauti's Take
The promising part is the inversion: AI is mostly debated as a manipulation tool, yet it works just as well for listening, clustering thousands of citizen inputs instead of guessing from polls. The risk is asymmetry, because deepfakes scale faster and cheaper than deliberative formats.
Communications teams and associations should study the Japan and Scotland cases.
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