How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
Schneier and Sanders argue US candidates should use AI for broad listening and voter engagement, citing Japan's Team Mirai and civic tech tools.
Schneier on Security published an essay arguing candidates in the US midterms could use AI constructively rather than only for deepfakes and one-way messaging. It highlights Japan's Team Mirai party, whose AI interviewer has gathered over 300,000 messages across 16,000 interviews and helped the party win 12 Diet seats. Other cited tools include Scotland-funded CrownShy's Comhairle, deliberation.io, MIT's Cortico, Talk to the City, and Remesh. Higher Ground Labs launched a fund targeting AI-native campaign systems.
- Team Mirai's AI interviewer gathered 300,000+ voter messages across 16,000 interviews
- Party members cite constituent AI input in hearings and amended their platform
- CrownShy's Comhairle and several US civic AI tools support scaled deliberation
- Higher Ground Labs launched a fund targeting AI-native campaign systems
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- Higher Ground Labs
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- Team Mirai
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- CrownShyHigher Ground Labs
- Countries
- United StatesJapanScotland
From the original article
5 min read at schneier.comThis essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse.
By Bruce Schneier · schneier.com
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