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A Vision for Reinventing Credible Elections with Artificial Intelligence
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A blue-sky AAAI 2025 paper proposing a PROMISE vision for credible elections, combining AI-driven Collation, Distribution and Comprehension of official election information (CDC) with community building around safe AI use in elections.
Problem
Voters, candidates and election officials face inaccurate or hard-to-find election information, and generative AI chatbots are unreliable or deflect on election questions, which may depress voter participation and erode trust.
Approach
Anchor AI tools on official election data (FAQs from election commissions) and combine collation of authoritative Q/A, opinion-network-aware distribution with infobots, and trustworthy chatbot comprehension (SafeChat with do-not-answer strategies), alongside an interdisciplinary community effort (PROMISE).
Key results
- Proposes an overarching goal of raising voter participation by at least 5%, noting 1-2% seems feasible with current mobilization approaches.
- Reports FAQ statistics: South Carolina has 30 Q/A pairs and Mississippi has 12, showing limited official coverage.
Surprising findings
- OpenAI declared ChatGPT will defer election questions to human-curated FAQs despite strong QA performance.
Limitations
- Vision paper with no experimental evaluation of the proposed CDC framework.
- Official election FAQ datasets are small and cover few topics.
- Funding and institutional support for election AI research is limited.
Experimental setup
Datasets: South Carolina Elections Commission FAQs (30 Q/A pairs) Mississippi official FAQs (12 Q/A pairs)
Baselines: ChatGPT Bard
Builds on: SafeChat Rasa information deficit model
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