The year of elections, AI, and two recent papers
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Biplav Srivastava
Dec 24, 2024, 6:57:01 PM12/24/24
to Credible Elections with AI Lead Technologies
Dear Colleagues
We are near the end of 2024 - the 'year of elections' where more than half of the
world’s population experienced a choice to elect their representatives. Although AI did not cause as much harm as was feared at the start of the year, it was not due to bad actors’ lack of trying or AI vendors trying to improve things. On the contrary, online attacks peaked around every election globally, and AI vendors, for the most part, gave up on their latest fad of generative AI for elections as they found that they could not guarantee the technology giving only accurate information. We are all relieved at the result - elections went well !
world’s population experienced a choice to elect their representatives. Although AI did not cause as much harm as was feared at the start of the year, it was not due to bad actors’ lack of trying or AI vendors trying to improve things. On the contrary, online attacks peaked around every election globally, and AI vendors, for the most part, gave up on their latest fad of generative AI for elections as they found that they could not guarantee the technology giving only accurate information. We are all relieved at the result - elections went well !
But the problem of credible elections in the era of AI remains and the best time to improve things is now! In that spirit, here are two papers:
Biplav Srivastava, A Vision for Reinventing Credible Elections with Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, USA, Blue Sky paper, 2025. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13700.1344; (Paper link) [Election, AI Role, Official Information]
Vipula Rawte, Deja N Scott, Gaurav Kumar, Aishneet Juneja, Bharat Sowrya Yaddanapalli, Biplav Srivastava, Do Voters Get the Information They Want? Understanding Authentic Voter FAQs in the US and How to Improve for Informed Electoral Participation, On Arxiv at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15273, 2024 [NLP, Elections]
Key ideas:
[Paper 1] Improve voter participation, especially of seniors and youths, using technology and multi-disciplinary engagement
a) Technology component - CDC
* Collate: Collate good/ official information
* Distribute: Safely distribute it in opinion and social networks by controlling narrative
* Comprehension: Make content easy to understand for voters (users) using chatbot technology
b) Engagement component - PROMote AIs Safe usage for Elections
(PROMISE) with best-practices.
a) Technology component - CDC
* Collate: Collate good/ official information
* Distribute: Safely distribute it in opinion and social networks by controlling narrative
* Comprehension: Make content easy to understand for voters (users) using chatbot technology
b) Engagement component - PROMote AIs Safe usage for Elections
(PROMISE) with best-practices.
[Paper 2] First work we know collating official voter FAQs for all the US states, analyzing the content using NLP techniques, identifying what leaders (roughtly 8%) do well and arguing others to follow.
Looking forward to continue the discussion in the new year!
Happy holidays and a very happy new year!
Regards,
Biplav
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