Political operations may soon deploy a surprisingly persuasive new campaign surrogate: a chatbot that’ll talk up their candidates. According to a new study published in the journal Nature , conversations with AI chatbots have shown the potential to influence voter attitudes, which should raise significant concern over who controls the information being shared by these bots and how much it could shape the outcome of future elections.

Researchers, led by David G. Rand, Professor of Information Science, Marketing, and Psychology at Cornell, ran experiments pairing potential voters with a chatbot designed to advocate for a specific candidate for several different elections: the 2024 US presidential election and the 2025 national elections in Canada and Poland. They found that while the c

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