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A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

NYT > Business > Media · Tiffany Hsu, Steven Lee Myers and Julian E. Barnes · last updated

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

The rush to integrate artificial intelligence into major social media platforms has placed a slew of potential pitfalls between voters and reliable information about elections, dangers that tech companies are addressing inconsistently, if at all.

Ahead of the midterms next month, chatbots, media generation services and automated content moderation systems are increasingly shaping voter choices, according to political experts and new research, even as A.I. enables new forms of toxic content.

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