Is Democracy Threatened by Chatbots?

Chatbots are becoming more sophisticated both in their ability to process language and gauge emotion. As social media increasingly influences our news and beliefs, this could be a big problem.

By Emily Ludolf | January 31, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Government, Journalism, Knowledge, Politics, Psychology, Security, Society | AI, Bias, Chatbots, Customer Service, Cyberbullying, Democracy, Elections, Fake News, Filter Bubble, Influence, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Natural Language Processing, News, NLP, Opinion, Oxford, Profiling, Propaganda, Psychiatry, Psychology, Russia, Social Media, Targeting, Tay, Therapy, Trolling, Twitter

New Digital Fakery May Make Truth Even More Elusive

Software now in development makes it easy to fabricate audio and video of real people, literally putting words in their mouths.

By Samantha Maxwell | November 1, 2017 | Ethics, Journalism, Media, Politics | Adobe, Comet Ping Pong, Donald Trump, Face2Face, Facebook, Fake News, Fakery, Filter Bubble, Forgery, Hillary Clinton, Journalism, Lyrebird, Media, Mimicry, Misinformation, Opinion, PhotoShop, Pizzagate, Politicians, Social Media, The Emily Project, Truth, Twitter, VoCo

We Have a Loser: How Polling Undermines Democracy

The first article in an occasional series about prediction. Though it seems ages ago, this month, Senator Ted Cruz ended [...]

By Mo Lotman | May 25, 2016 | Journalism, Media, Politics, Prediction | Bernie Sanders, Boston Globe, CNN, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Elections, Hilary Clinton, Minority Viewpoints, New York Times, Opinion, Polls, Primaries, Republican, Republican Revolution, Supression, Ted Cruz, Turnout