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Friday 13 September 2024
Most Americans don’t trust AI-powered election information:

AP-NORC/USAFacts survey

By ALI SWENSON and said he doesn’t know any-
LINLEY SANDERS one on his campus who uses
Associated Press AI chatbots to find informa-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jim tion about candidates or vot-
Duggan uses ChatGPT al- ing. He doesn’t use them ei-
most daily to draft marketing ther, since he’s noticed that
emails for his carbon removal it’s possible to “basically just
credit business in Huntsville, bully AI tools into giving you
Alabama. But he’d never the answers that you want.”
trust an artificial intelligence The Democrat from Texas
chatbot with any questions said he gets most of his news
about the upcoming presi- from mainstream outlets such
dential election. as CNN, the BBC, NPR, The
“I just don’t think AI produces New York Times and The
truth,” the 68-year-old politi- Wall Street Journal. When
cal conservative said in an it comes to misinformation
interview. “Grammar and in the upcoming election,
words, that’s something he’s more worried that AI-
that’s concrete. Political generated deepfakes and
thought, judgment, opin- AI-fueled bot accounts on
ions aren’t.” Duggan is part social media will sway voter
of the majority of Ameri- opinions.
cans who do not trust arti- “I’ve seen videos of people
ficial intelligence-powered A spool of stickers rests on a table at a polling station during Massachusetts state primary voting, doing AI deepfakes of poli-
chatbots or search results to Sept. 3, 2024, in Newton, Mass. ticians and stuff, and these
give them accurate answers, Associated Press have all been obvious jokes,”
according to a survey from when it comes to informa- government website for reli- ficult to find accurate infor- Ryan said. “But it does worry
The Associated Press-NORC tion about high-stakes events able information. mation about the 2024 elec- me when I see those that
Center for Public Affairs Re- such as elections. Large AI models that can tion. About 4 in 10 Americans maybe someone’s going
search and USAFacts. About Earlier this year, a gathering generate text, images, vid- say the use of AI will make to make something serious
two-thirds of U.S. adults say of election officials and AI eos or audio clips at the it “much more difficult” or and actually disseminate it.”
they are not very or not at researchers found that AI click of a button are poorly “somewhat more difficult” A relatively small portion of
all confident that these tools tools did poorly when asked understood and minimally to find factual information, Americans 8% think results
provide reliable and factual relatively basic questions, regulated. Their ability to pre- while another 4 in 10 aren’t produced by AI chatbots
information, the poll shows. such as where to find the dict the most plausible next sure saying it won’t make such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT
The findings reveal that even nearest polling place. Last word in a sentence based it easier or more challeng- or Anthropic’s Claude are al-
as Americans have started month, several secretaries on vast pools of data allows ing, according to the poll. ways or often based on fac-
using generative AI-fueled of state warned that the AI them to provide sophisticat- A distinct minority, 16%, say tual information, according
chatbots and search en- chatbot developed for the ed responses on almost any AI will make it easier to find to the poll. They have a simi-
gines in their personal and social media platform X was topic but it also makes them accurate information about lar level of trust in AI-assisted
work lives, most have re- spreading bogus election vulnerable to errors. the election. search engines such as Bing
mained skeptical of these information, prompting X to Americans are split on Griffin Ryan, a 21-year-old or Google, with 12% believ-
rapidly advancing technolo- tweak the tool so it would whether they think the use college student at Tulane ing their results are always or
gies. That’s particularly true first direct users to a federal of AI will make it more dif- University in New Orleans, often based on facts. q

2nd Circuit rejects Donald Trump’s request to halt post conviction

proceedings in hush money case

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Trump’s lawyers and the Manhattan dis-
Associated Press trict attorney’s office, which prosecuted
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court the case.
has rejected Donald Trump’s request to Trump appealed to the 2nd Circuit after a
halt post conviction proceedings in his federal judge last week thwarted the Re-
hush money criminal case, leaving a key publican nominee’s request to have the
ruling and the former president’s sentenc- U.S. District Court in Manhattan seize con-
ing on track for after the November elec- trol of the case from the state court where
tion. it was tried.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Trump’s lawyers said they wanted the case
Court of Appeals in Manhattan cited the moved to federal court so they could then
postponement last week of Trump’s sen- seek to have the verdict and case dis-
tencing from Sept. 18 to Nov. 26 in deny- missed on immunity grounds.
ing his motion for an emergency stay. The trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, an-
The sentencing delay, which Trump had nounced the delay last Friday and said
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump sought, removed the urgency required he now plans to rule Nov. 12 on Trump’s
speaks to reporters in the spin room after a presidential debate for the appeals court to consider pausing request to overturn the verdict and toss
with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala proceedings. out the case because of the U.S. Supreme
Harris, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.
Associated Press Messages seeking comment were left for Court’s July presidential immunity ruling.q