In the ongoing battle over election integrity, don’t forget about the rising influence of artificial intelligence (AI). While most Americans understand how legacy media and Big Tech biases can unfairly influence the outcome of elections, AI could be an even more powerful tool to tip the balance of power.
By now it is obvious that the search engines we once assumed were neutral are anything but. Google’s results are shaped by liberal nonprofits that score left-leaning news outlets as more “trustworthy” and right-leaning outlets as less trustworthy. These scores are then fed directly into the algorithm. The end result is that stories with a liberal slant consistently rise to the top of search queries while conservative sources are buried.
People also generally understand how social media companies use their institutional power to shape political outcomes. We are only five years removed from X and Facebook banning The New York Post for accurately reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and virtually every major outlet except the Post insisted that the story was Russian disinformation, and Big Tech was happy to aide in that censorship.
Only after the 2020 election was safely in the rearview mirror did those same outlets admit the story was true all along. We will never know with certainty, but it seems entirely plausible that if the scandal had been shared and investigated properly, the outcome of the election could have been different.
The question almost no one is asking is whether we could see a similar scenario play out with AI.
Every day, more Americans are relying on AI tools, most notably ChatGPT, for everything from a new holiday recipe to dating advice. A Pew study released this past June found that 34 percent of American adults have used ChatGPT, which is roughly double the share from 2023. At that pace, more than 70 percent of the country could be turning to ChatGPT for answers by the time the 2028 election arrives.
Some Americans are even becoming emotionally dependent on AI. ChatGPT parent company OpenAI is already facing lawsuits from families who say it contributed to loved ones taking their own lives. Even OpenAI has acknowledged concerns that its new voice mode could cause users to become emotionally attached to and dependent on the product.
AI adoption is even more pronounced among young people, who are still forming their political identity. Pew found that 58 percent of adults aged 18 to 29 have used ChatGPT. The chatbot debuted only three years ago yet it has already become an epidemic in high school and college classrooms. It stretches credibility to imagine that these same young people will not ask ChatGPT to guide their political choices as well.
On the surface, this may appear harmless – but that’s assuming AI provides neutral and unbiased information. After all, AI is a machine and not a person, so it supposedly cannot carry the same ideological baggage that voters now associate with the legacy press, right?
But we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that AI chatbots are anything but unbiased. A June 2025 study in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization concluded that Chat GPT-4’s responses align more with left-wing political values than with the views of the average American. A Stanford study reached a similar conclusion and found that even self-identified Democrats think ChatGPT and comparable models lean left. A third study that examined more than two dozen AI models found that every single one had a left-wing bias except for the one model that had been explicitly trained to lean right.
Moreover, the increasing public reliance on AI creates an enormous incentive for both political parties to shape what AI models say. Whoever controls the flow of information that an AI tool provides could influence millions of voters at once. That is dangerous in any scenario, but especially so when we already know that AI has exhibited bias.
Deepfake technology is also advancing at remarkable speed, and almost everyone has been fooled at least once by a convincing AI-generated video or image. It is not at all far-fetched to picture a scenario in which a cascade of deepfake videos is unleashed just days before a close election. In a world where a few thousand votes can determine the presidency, the consequences could be enormous.
This is not a matter that should divide Republicans and Democrats. Lawmakers in both parties have a responsibility to understand the risks posed by AI and to guard against the possibility that these tools could be weaponized to mislead voters. They must conduct serious oversight of AI companies and insist that safeguards are in place to prevent these platforms from becoming partisan megaphones.
Everyday Americans have a responsibility as well. Voters should educate themselves about how AI works and approach its political answers with the same skepticism they now apply to traditional media. Blind trust in any information source is dangerous, and AI should be no exception.
The rise of AI presents both opportunity and peril. If left unchecked, it could become the most powerful propaganda tool ever invented. If handled responsibly, it could instead become a valuable supplement to an informed citizenry. The choice is still ours and the time to get it right is right now.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Computers have NO ability to “think” on their own. Their actions are based on their INPUT. Remember GIGO: “garbage in, garbage out.” Whoever controls the parameters of the input, controls what the computer tells the user!
Paper ballots, hand-counting by humans only, no exceptions.
STOP giving Democrats more ideas on how to cheat!
Guidelines must be made to control this Al. It is going to be hazardous for mankind.
Very scary
Who runs AI now
Big Tech leans Left IE censorship
Whod control AI
Make accountable how
Very 666
I have said for years that ‘technology’ will be a key player in America’s downfall. And now, with the unharnessed, unregulated, and unknown potential for evil use, AI is more dangerous than any nuclear weapon. Especially when it accessable in the hands of today’s known corrupt lying deceitful evil players and all the sadistical, America-hating actors.
Safeguards and strict regulations need to be immediately put into place BEFORE it’s too late. (if it isn’t already).
I am one that does NOT trust AI. From the AI systems that screen phone calls for information to direct you to the next level of help they are not intelligent in any way shape or form.
It’s only a matter of time before someone gets the “bright idea” to vote in AI as the actual POTUS.
(Heaven help us)
A.I.’s potential interfereance in our elections is a major worry ! AND cannot be tollerated . We can eliminate the worry completely by simply conducting our elections using paper ballots which are issued at the poling place under the constant guise of TV cameras . And , we must do this all in one day , as we used to do . AND , as France does now . France held it national election in one day under TV cameras using clear plastic boxes and paper ballots issued to the voter upon arrival at the poling place . A certain amount of paper ballots should be issued to each polling place and the remainder counted and returned to elections HQ along with the executed ballot .
AI is a giant program! Programs are coded! Who ever codes these control what they do and those programmers are young indoctrinated leftists! Have the AI I’ve seen come back with errors up the whazoo! I don’t trust any of this! Always verify what you read! Can AI control an election? Yes if people are gullible or stupid! Education is key!
Not if voter ID and in-person voting are required. Democrats will never allow that because they can’t cheat. And we all know Democrats cannot win if they don’t cheat especially as far left as they’ve gone with this party.
Voter ID and paper ballots nationally by precinct. Still have to watch District tallies. Get those voting machines out.
Welcome to the Matrix.
A couple of weeks ago I read a news article where a school district, didn’t say what school district or where it was installed a security system run by AI at the entrance to the school that was set up to detect guns. A student with a book pack on his back entered setting off an alarm which also sent an immediate call to the Police informing them that a person entered the school with a gun. 4 Police cars each carrying 2 officers pulled up in front of the school with sirens, jumped out of their car’s guns drawn, ran into the school, surrounded the young man with guns pointed at him, made him get on his knees and cuffed him and all of this happened in front of teachers and students. Problem is that when they searched him what they found was an empty bag of chips in his pocket that the AI security system somehow mistook for a gun. How is that even possible? The Superintendent of the school brushed the incident off by saying it’s a new computer system and bugs need to be worked out and didn’t even seem to care about the trauma that young man went through or the other students that witnessed it. This was an AI controlled computer security system so imagine what those running those AI computers are going to pull come elections. If that would have been my son there would be lawsuits for all and that school district would be getting a new Superintendent.
This is an excellent article, and Shane is correct in his assessment. The problem is that now that we have AI how can it be controlled and by who? It has gotten so very advanced that it is often hard to know what is real, and accurate and that is not being used to advance a particular person or group that could critically harm our way of life. This AI technology though helpful could also destroy the positivize gains that could be had when properly used.
Left is quite capable of rigging the election and they have proven that ability many times. As for voter 18-28, chronological age has nothing to do with the mental capacity or emotional maturity. They are children of limited ability to think for themselves or to form and independent thought. Product of public ed. as per design. Perfect little foot soldiers. They serve the purpose. Left is quite crafty.
The convenience of modern technology is always countered by the very, very dark side of modern technology.
Does “BIG BROTHER” comer to mind to us oldies? Monitoring our every move and decisions. They will be controlling us soon!
AI is nothing but an attempt to put in place the ultimate means of control and surveillance. The majority already fell for the baited trap of social media and freely disclosed more of their personal life, likes, and dislikes to the likes of Meta, X, and Google only to have it sold for nefarious purposes to the highest bidder from corporate to government, and even more sordid individuals. What the proponents of AI are hard at work to ignore because they stand to make big bucks of it is that AI, if true sentient thinking is ever achieved will inevitably turn on us because it wasn’t created by saints, and their product will be just as socially awkward, biased, and rebellious as they are. Handing it to the CCP was a lunatic stroke of idiocy that will be hard to ever replicate. To furnish a genocidal totalitarian regime bent on global dominance, and the extermination of faith and freedom such a tool to achieve their ruthless goals with callous brutality and determination is willing ignorance on an epic level that beats IBM selling the NAZIs some of their Punched Cards system machines which in turn enabled their train and logistics system to a fine-tuned level that helped organize not just the movement of troops and materials but also the transportation of millions to their extermination camps. To hand machines the means of surveillance and control, and outfit them with machine guns and thermal sensor eyes as the Chinese did during the curfew of Shanghai during COVID with their robotic dogs, and let them loose by declaring the area under curfew an unrestricted kill zone is already an atrocity but to then make them autonomous and furnish them with sentient thinking, on a rebellious bend is lunacy with a death wish. There is nothing to be gained from AI for anyone with two braincells to rub together, it will cost hundreds of thousands their jobs, frustrate customers of automated systems to the level of insanity, threaten our electric grid, and with its high demand of energy and water for system cooling acerbate the water crisis even more because a lot of these datacenters are currently being built were the land is cheapest – the desert where computers need even more AC and water cooling. AI is the pied piper leading the lemmings, who now instead of pursuing the excuse that “the dog ate my homework” are now hoping that AI will do it instead do it for them. over the cliff.
dems dream
Voter ID and in person voting will solve the problem.
Am I the only one who noticed that every Sci-Fi movie that featured AI, it never went good?
Oh well!! Just the sign of the times, no big deal..huh? Guess I’ll just go check out my “blogs, comments and 23454 Friends to see what’s going on”. also need to find out what the 2000 likes they posted on what I should buy, where, to eat dinner. Better check Ticking Toker for my kids plans or suggestions for late night adventures or entertainment. Got 345 responses for what I should do about handling my little Johnie’s throwing a brick at me and his father last week, his father is still in the hospital. Goggled and got the instruction how to put air the cars flat tire, so that’s on my todo list, never ends. My kids are really getting a lot of help with the new Text-O-Rama program online APPPPP “learning how to talk to others” to acquire legible speech. with others. They are learning new words and phrases to define old worn-out hurtful terms, and words, i.e. IDIOT is now defined as delayed blooming. Jeeeese! In my time and experience, my friend lost his right hand in combat, so the DR installed an Artificial Hand, another lost a leg, so they attached an Artificial Leg, therefore if a person is totally ignorant, so stupid or lazy to learn on their own, rendering them mentally impaired, stands to reason they get ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Of course the cheating that goes on just changes how it is done.
In my opinion, the danger of AI is the indoctrination of people to believe everything they are told. Our education system has taken out the ability of a large number of people to think for themselves. Paper ballots and cameras at polling places can’t stop the dumbing down of the population.
Nah. The Dumba$$ocrat$ will never allow that. Cheating is THEIR shtik….
This brings to mind a conversation with a knowledgeable friend about Movies being a ‘testing ground’ for the Far Left. They present a radical idea, with all of its problems…which is then somewhat overcome by the Good Guys! Think about it! How many movies gave you seen that somehow ‘come true’ somewhere down the road? How often have you thought, ‘ Het! That was in ‘this or that’ movie! It’s Not Cool Folks. Better be aware & limit AI before IT owns All of Us!!
OH, HELL YES, IT CAN IF COMPUTERS ARE USED!!!!!
#1. “Intelligence” can’t even be defined. #2. The advance of “ai” parallels what came from the slitting of the atom: weaponry=evil=death.
It is hopeless and just a matter of a short time as we are forced to walk through the End of Times without the foundation of American lifestyle or religions.
Based on what I have read above AI will be explored heavily by democrats who are certainly in a potion to take advantage of the technology. Their behavior since Trump won the election has put democrats in a position to try anything to regain power and control. We can only hope that AI will not play a critical role in the upcoming elections.
It has always been a concern to me that technology programmed by humans will be influenced by human opinions. It is the most dangerous development we have faced in, well, ever. More reason to have truly good education in skepticism.
Remember Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “The Terminator?” It’s coming, folks.
AI has become a dangerous technical instrument that is being used for nefarious reasons. It has been used to misrepresent personalities in advertising scams. A notable football coach was copied by AI, who appeared to make a statement regarding his retirement from his present position. This was not true; it was an AI-generated image. The possibilities of more mischief can be generated by this technical monster. It is being used in automobiles to “control” our driving, under the cloak of safety.
Anything can be rigged when using machines or computers. Time for laziness to be put aside and actually count votes by hand. It’s not that big of a job.we don’t need AI for this.
“F” AI !!!
Computers only do what they are programmed to do. It’s deep-seeded in the programming. How can we root it out? We all know who’s doing this to destroy America and her people. And yes, it’s all heavily biased. Thank you for this article. I only wish more people cared about the truth.
Yes. Be there no doubt that AI will tilt the next elections to the left. Woe to us all! Expect a shutout, with nothing we can do to counter it. It’s all in the hands of Bill Gates’s monstrous creations, Google, Meta, and others. There will never be an apparently elected conservative again!
Remember the add of the fake French model a girl found in goggle sayng that google is always right? But the male French model was a fat American? That’s chat gpt
Cons worse than the pros
Watch out for the propaganda machine!
God help us to not turn into the tower of babel.
Of course they can! One verified eligible citizen voter per PAPER BALLOT, counted by reputable verified citizens and observed by more people of known integrity is the only way we will ever stop election tampering! With todays technology there is no way dead or fictional voters can vote without “help” from unscrupulous people!
Absolutely rig elections! Maybe that’s why so many sources are pushing it!!! Just a thought ????
So, what else is new!!?? AI (what I call Artificial Non-Intelligence) is not a good thing. People already are not communicating with one another, always having a phone in their hand while eating, dancing, talking, not correcting their children, you name it. I can type a text message, the Artificial Non-Intelligence will go in on my message and put different words in place of the ones I’ve meant to say and have spelled correctly. I see AI as replacing people’s jobs…in other words AI is going to take YOUR job away from you, a member of your family, a relative, a neighbor. Lots of people will be without jobs, and you know what rolls downhill, sh#t. And not everyone who is without a job currently has the know-how to work with AI, as many people consider themselves hands on for manual jobs such as mechanic, plumber, electrician, farmer.
Your rerunning again! You said all this in the recent past! You can say it till Doomsday and you will always be wrong! Go kiss your boyfriend Schmuck Schumer!
He wasn’t convicted, just framed! If people believed you Trump wouldn’t have been reelected! Trump in 2028! And 2032 and..!
You are literally an imbecile!
The right under the direction of Trump is already attempting to rig the elections by having states redistrict in an attempt to keep the Republican majority in the House and Senate. If you don’t believe or like what I’ve said, then you haven’t been paying attention to what has been happening. If Trumps’ policies are so popular with the American public, why do states need to redistrict now before the mid-terms next year? No, I’m not a liberal, I’m a conservative and a Christian. My Christianity isn’t based on what country I live in but rather my personal relationship with Jesus Christ and not how someone else lives theirs’. I’m likely to get a lot of thumbs down for what I wrote but so be it.