Is America Ready For AI-Powered Politics?
In 2020, researchers at Cornell University wanted to find out. They sent 32,398 emails, generated by so-called artificial intelligence, to America’s 7,132 state legislators and waited for replies.
And they came. Legislators responded to emails written by a digital “large language model” just 2% less often than they did emails written by human undergraduates — a statistically significant difference, but a small one.
What’s more, the study noted, “a sizable number of AI-written correspondences elicited lengthy and personal responses suggesting that legislators believed that they were responding to constituents.”
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