{"id":136561,"date":"2026-08-12T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/136561\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:02:08","slug":"artificial-intelligence-gets-smarter-in-lead-up-to-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/136561\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence gets smarter in lead-up to midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Spectrum News 1’s Jack Arpey has reported<\/a>, New York state Democrats are urging the state Board of Elections to take legal action against Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for his use of artificial intelligence in campaign ads.<\/p>\n

Several of the gubernatorial candidate\u2019s ads include AI-generated images of Gov. Kathy Hochul, whom he\u2019s challenging in this year\u2019s election. Those ads aren\u2019t labeled like a new law requires.<\/p>\n

But AI-generated images aren\u2019t the only way artificial intelligence is influencing our elections and public opinion. \u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, there are now supercharged \u201cbots\u201d that no longer need human intervention to coordinate propaganda, and these bots are very effective at distributing misinformation.<\/p>\n

According to a study<\/a> out by the University of Southern California, these upgraded bots are capable of setting goals, building teams, writing their own posts and learning from their mistakes. Each post they generate is slightly different and therefore appears a lot more authentic to media consumers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we know is that it\u2019s actually quite easy to generate this content and distribute it through social media platforms, so it\u2019s a great concern,\u201d Stromer-Galley told Capital Tonight.<\/p>\n

There is more concerning news regarding AI. According to Stromer-Galley, research indicates that the public generally does not do a good job distinguishing AI-generated content from human-generated content, which will likely pave the way for bad actors to sow dissent and disinformation in the lead-up to the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Additionally, she says there are currently no federal laws passed by Congress that regulate AI content in political ads or in policy conversations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been efforts by primarily the Democratic Party to advance legislation \u2013 that would restrict two dimensions: Restrict political advertisements with AI used. Other proposals would require that there be disclaimers so that people know that the ads that they\u2019re seeing have political content,\u201d she said. \u201cSo far, none of them have passed Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Spectrum News 1’s Jack Arpey has reported, New York state Democrats are urging the state Board of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,37651,25,37648,37647,67631,1672,66,37650,464,37646,65],"class_list":["post-136561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-decision-2026","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}