This blog essay combines two issues of interest to this list, the upcoming elections in 2026 and AI.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-and-voter-engagement.html I follow Bruce Schneier on digital security. But I question whether AI is going to be useful for voter engagement like social media, i.e. Facebook, became to elections starting in 2008. US lawyers have been getting into legal trouble for years with their AI-written briefs. That's because courts are evidence based and lying is supposed to be a crime. Maybe AI will do better in politics than law since lying is so effective in politics, but AI is often incorrect and I wonder if the real effectiveness of AI is on the dark side rather than the engagement side of bourgeois political elections. Cambridge Analytica tapped into Facebook's surveillance features to target messages based on users' online behavior. ChatGPT etc. know quite a bit about their users too. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39725): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39725 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116792672/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
