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How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy

  • Written by Archon Fung, Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Harvard Kennedy School
imageAn AI-driven political campaign could be all things to all people.Eric Smalley, TCUS; Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr; Taymaz Valley/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways?

Sen. Josh Hawley asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this question in a May...

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