Conversations between humans and AI chatbots can significantly influence voters’ decisions, with the impact in Canada potentially three times greater than in the United States, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Dec. 4.
The study, conducted by researchers from MIT and other universities in Canada, Poland, and the United States, analyzed how conversations with AI chatbots could persuade people to change their voting intentions more effectively than traditional political advertisements.
In an experiment with Canadian voters ahead of this year’s federal election, the researchers found that AI chatbots could influence some participants to switch their preference between the country’s two leading parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, with their effect being greater among those who did not already support the party being promoted….