Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote

As Americans go to the polls today, many will have had their decision about who to vote for informed by an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

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Around 50 percent of recently surveyed US adults have at one time used an AI chatbot, and 8 percent say they have used these tools ahead of the midterms to find information on candidates and policies, according to Pew Research.

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But a lot of information from these chatbots is out of date and has been hallucinated or sourced from partisan websites.

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Even supposedly non-partisan chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini have been found wanting when it comes to questions about the midterms.

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Just last week, Google’s AI Mode refused to provide the results of the 2020 elections and the company’s Gemini chatbot said the deadline to request a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania was November 3, rather than the real deadline of October 27, according to research by Forum AI.

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According to the Forum AI research, almost 40 percent of election answers given by all the mainstream chatbots contained at least one factual error. In August, when Forum AI’s researchers asked why someone should vote for North Carolina congressman Don Davis, Claude gave a…

Original source: https://www.wired.com/