These Democrats Think the Party Needs AI to Win Elections

The 2024 electoral cycle saw the artificial intelligence deployed by political campaigns for the very first time. While candidates have largely avoided major misadventures, technology has been used with little advice or restraint. From now on, the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) deploys the first official game book, which means that democratic campaigns can use AI responsible before the environment.

In a new online training, the Committee has established a plan for Democratic candidates to take advantage of AI to create social content, write voter awareness messages and search for their districts and opponents. Since the NDTC Foundation in 2016, according to the organization, it has formed more than 120,000 democrats looking for a political position. The group offers virtual lessons and bootcamps in person forming potential democratic politicians on everything, from voting registration and fundraising to data management and field organization. The group widely targets small campaigns with fewer resources with its IA lesson, seeking to allow what could be teams of five people to work with “the efficiency of a team of 15 people”.

“The adoption of the AI and the responsible AI is a competitive necessity. This is not a luxury, ”explains Donald Riddle, designer of senior education at the NDTC. “This is something that we need our learners to understand and feel comfortable to implement so that they can have this competitive advantage and push progressive changes and push this needle left while using these tools effectively and responsible.”

The three -part training includes an explanation on the functioning of the AI, but the meat of the course revolves around any cases of use of the AI for the campaigns. More specifically, he encourages candidates to use AI to prepare text for a variety of platforms and uses, including social media, emails, speeches, telephone bench and internal training equipment that are examined by humans before being published.

The training also stresses that Democrats should not use AI and discourage candidates from using AI for deeply their opponents, pretend to be real people or create images and videos that could “deceive voters by distorting events, individuals or reality”.

“It undermines the democratic discourse and the confidence of voters,” says training.

He also advises candidates to replace human artists and graphic designers with AI to “maintain creative integrity” and support creative work.

The last section of the course also encourages candidates to disclose the use of AI when the content of the voices generated by AI, presents itself as “deeply personal” or is used to develop complex policy positions. “When AI significantly contributes to the development of politicians, transparency strengthens confidence,” he said.

These disclosure is the most important part of the training at Hany Farid, an expert in generative AI and a professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley.

“You must have a transparency when something is not real or when something has been fully generated by AI,” said Farid. “But the reason for this is not only that we disclose what is not real, but it is also that we trust what is real.”

When using video AI, NDTC suggests that campaigns use tools such as descriptions or an opus clip to develop scripts and quickly modify content for social media, deactivation of long breaks and annoying moments.