Joined Dutch public broadcasting newshour show tonight to discuss AI and elections. And how chatbots and generative AI can be leveraged for political campaigns. And why the super election year 2024 is virtually unregulated. #AI#democracy#campaigns#politics#generativeAI
The most fun and rewarding job in my CAREER was the two years I spent in #Chicago doing opposition and vulnerability #research for local, state, and federal #campaigns.
I never made more than $33,000 a year doing it.
I loved the data, the #public records investigation, synthesis, narrative reporting.
Some clients and opposing candidates had been in Congress since the 90’s.
Reading Congressional #RollCall going back 10+ years was a regular activity.
The Tory govt passed a statutory instrument that increases amount of money an individual can donate to a party without declaring who donated it, from £7,500 to £11,180
The same statutory law increased election spending cap by 80%, from £19.5m to £35m - the amount party HQs can spend.
NGP VAN provides tools used by #Democrats to raise money and mobilize #voters. New mgmt has been stripping its operations to the bare bones.
#MiniVAN – A mobile #canvassing app that allows for #campaigns and organizations to contact voters or supporters, collect data, and sync the information back to their database in real time.
71% of progressive voter contact attempts were made on MiniVAN instead of paper lists in 2018.
I just submitted a comment to the FEC strongly urging them to ban the use of AI by any campaign, PAC or other entity or organization seeking to inform or educate voters regarding any election or issue.
First Game Master: Vince Hendricks. There were other game masters before him, but Vince ran the first real, ongoing, sustained campaign I played in.
Vince was my first college room mate - a senior when I was a sophomore (I transferred in that year) and he introduced me to a ton of gamers in college. #rpgaday23#dnd#campaigns
A quick overview of current #AI regulations proposals in the legislative process
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Today, I read about someone still using #Google that in his search, he had the first 3 pages of hits with "junk" results which he attributed to #AI generated pages.
#Dems introduced a Bill Requiring Political Ads to Disclose AI Use at the beginning of May, 2023. Even though sensible, I don't see it getting passed due to the distribution of power in Congress,unless there...
... classified "#AI
systems to influence voters in political #campaigns and in recommender systems used by social media platforms (with more than 45 million users under the Digital Services Act, #DSI) to the high-risk list."
Apart from high-risk #AI, there are rules suggested for General-purpose AI.
"Generative foundation models, like #GPT, would have to comply with additional #transparency requirements,..."