New York Times, April 2026
For better or worse, artificial intelligence is driving a major upheaval in American politics that will alter the substance and the character of campaigns. A.I. has emerged as a powerful political tool with the potential either to improve the quality of decision-making on Election Day or to do the opposite and subvert the process of deliberation. Perhaps surprisingly, a number of studies have shown that A.I. chatbots and large language models have stronger persuasive powers than humans.
