18 Articles about AI & Politics

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight – Washington Post

China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley. – New York Times

The hottest AI models in Silicon Valley face a powerful source of competition – Washington Post

China’s A.I. Play Is Different From America’s – New York Times

White House will exempt ‘open’ AI systems from security review – Washington Post

New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry – Arstechnica

Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. Threats: A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence. – New York Times

Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order – Semafor

India Is Moving Fast to Catch Up in A.I. A Coastal City Fears the Fallout. – New York Times

Censorship in Chinese AI models can be undone, new research shows – Semafor

How Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle – New York Times

Political text messages could get more effective and annoying. Blame AI – NPR

The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Be AI Slop – Futurism

Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution – New York Times

What AI companies want for the millions they’re spending on elections – CNBC

AI-generated video of Vermont congressional race tests new state disclosure law – WCAX

In Texas, AI-generated political ads are blurring the line between real and fake- Poynter

As Voters Grow Anxious Over A.I., Trump Shrugs Off the Concern - New York Times 

Differing Approaches to AI by the US & China

The United States is behaving as though frontier A.I. models could be the equivalent of nuclear weapons, offering an immensely destructive form of power that requires a careful and jealous watch. Meanwhile, China treats the models that its companies produce as the equivalent of nuclear energy, a lower-risk technology to be shared and commercialized to win friends and influence the world and undermine the advantages of the American A.I. giants. - Ross Douthat writing in The New York Times

Political Pros Use of AI

According to a new survey, 83 percent of political professionals say they use AI tools for work at least once a week. That’s up from 59 percent a year ago. Even more striking: 48 percent now say they use AI multiple times a day – a 57 percent increase over 2025 levels and significantly more than the 26 percent who say they use AI a few times a week. -Campaigns & Elections

19 Articles about AI & Politics

Congress Is Doing Little to Prepare for Potential A.I. Job Losses – New York Times

Will AI lead to more accurate opinion polls? – BBC

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores – New York Times

AI Use Among Political Consultants is Booming. Here’s How. – Campaigns & Elections

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released – New York Times

South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources – Semafor

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media - New York Times

Domestic Surveillance Is Expanding With New, AI-Powered Tools – Wall Street Journal

A violent reaction to AI is bubbling. But this isn’t the Luddites’ era. – Washington Post

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media – New York Times

GOP campaigns go all-in on AI — Dems not so much – Axios  

The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales. – ProPublica

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed A.I.-generated video Campaign – New Yorker

New pro-AI group preps $100M midterm blitz to boost Trump's agenda - Axios

Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War – 404 Media

As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters - The Guardian   

AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries – NBC News 

One Issue Uniting Democrats and Republicans? Worries About A.I. - New York Times

GOP campaigns go all-in on AI — Dems not so much - Axios

Study: Can Chatbots get People to Change their Vote?

"Roughly one in 10 participants in a study said they would change their vote in highly contested national elections in Canada and Poland after talking with a chatbot. The AI models took the role of a gentle, if firm, interlocutor, offering arguments and evidence in favor of the candidate they represented. 'If you could do that at scale,' the senior author on the study said, 'it would really change the outcome of elections.'” -The Atlantic

18 Articles about AI & Politics

New York Signs AI Safety Bill Into Law, Ignoring Trump Executive Order - Wall Street Journal

Israel reportedly using facial recognition and Google Photos to conduct mass surveillance in Gaza - Mashable

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed with the help of AI - CyberNews 

If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 – Wall Street Journal

Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Swaying Voters - The Atlantic  

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs – New York Time 

Trump Clears Sale of More Powerful Nvidia A.I. Chips to China - New York Times 

Cheap and powerful AI campaigns target voters in India – Rest of World  

Putin Wanted AI Supremacy. Now Russia Is Struggling to Stay in the Race. - Wall Street Journal

AI may discriminate against you at work. Some states are making it illegal. – Washington Post  

A growing share of America’s hottest AI startups have turned to open Chinese AI models – NBC News 

How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights - Australian Strategic Policy Institute

New rule targets AI discrimination. Here’s what workers need to know. - Washington Post 

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends - New York Times

China’s AI warpath – Politico

AI Enters the Classroom at the Marine War College – Military.com 

US to mandate AI vendors measure political bias for federal sales – Reuters  

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving – The Conversation

China's AI Lead

"China has taken a commanding lead in the exploding field of artificial intelligence (AI) research, despite U.S. restrictions on exporting key computing chips to its rival, finds a new report. In 2000, China-based scholars produced just 671 AI papers, but in 2024 their 23,695 AI-related publications topped the combined output of the United States (6378), the United Kingdom (2747), and the European Union (10,055). U.S. influence in AI research is declining, with China now dominating." -Science.org

The 3 Things Far-Right & Far-Left Political News Sources have in Common

When researchers analyzed almost 6,000 political news stories produced by partisan and nonpartisan media outlets in 2021, three things became clear:

  • Media outlets with extreme biases — regardless of whether it was a conservative or liberal bias — tended to use shorter sentences and less formal language than nonpartisan outlets.

  • Mainstream news organizations, as a whole, wrote at a higher reading level.

  • Far-right and far-left outlets took a more negative tone than nonpartisan outlets. They generally had a lower ratio of positive to negative words.

The researchers describe their findings in a paper forthcoming in Journalism Studies, “At the Extremes: Assessing Readability, Grade Level, Sentiment, and Tone in US Media Outlets.”

Read the full article from Journalist’s Resources here.

the strongest political bias of all

The strongest bias in American politics is not a liberal bias or a conservative bias; it is a confirmation bias, or the urge to believe only things that confirm what you already believe to be true. Not only do we tend to seek out and remember information that reaffirms what we already believe, but there is also a “backfire effect,” which sees people doubling down on their beliefs after being presented with evidence that contradicts them. So, where do we go from here? There’s no simple answer, but the only way people will start rejecting falsehoods being fed to them is by confronting uncomfortable truths.

Emma Roller writing in the New York Times