Registration and Details Here
When:
Friday, March 10th, 11:00 - 11:45am ET
Where:
Zoom - I will send a link the morning of the event
Who:
Zainab Chaudary - Senior vice president at New Heights Communications and an instructor in the graduate program in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.
Dave Karpf - Author of Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy and an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.
Yvonne Liccione - Political Communication student in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.
Peter Loge, the director of the Project on Ethics in Political and communication and an associate professor the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University will moderate.
Registration and details here
ChatGPT and related artificial intelligence bots seem to be everywhere - and they raise ethical questions everywhere they go. The Project on Ethics in Political Communication is excited to host a discussion about the ethical questions raised by the use of AI and bots on political campaigns.
Our panel will be: Prof. Dave Karpf, a leading expert on digital politics and historian of the digital future; Zainab Choudary, a strategic communication and campaign consultant who has been thinking about these questions a lot lately; and Yvonne Liccione, a political communication student whose coursework includes political communication ethics.
This is one of the first (if not the first) public discussion of the topic - but it most certainly will not be the last.
The event will be live on Zoom. We will record the conversation and post it on the Project on Ethics in Political Communication website shortly after the event. The event is open to the public, please share this with anyone you might be interested.
Further Reading
We are developing a list of resources and readings about ethics, AI and political campaigns. Below is some of what we’ve found so far. We will continue to update this list on the Project on Ethics in Political Communication blog.
A former student of mine named Jessica Nix, who is now a graduate student at Columbia University, asked ChatGPT about the ethics of using ChatGPT in campaigns. Here’s what it said.
ChatGPT is helping draft legislation - Washington Post
Political biases in ChatGPT, tweaking AI to generate bias - Rozado’s Visual Analytics
The right’s new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’: ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing - The Washington Post
Transforming the communication between citizens and government through AI-guided chatbots - Government Information Quarterly
AI/ChatGPT Lobbying - Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier - Washington Post
What AI Tools Like ChatGPT Mean for Political Consultants - Campaigns & Elections
It’s 2023. Consultants, Welcome to the Machine - Campaigns & Elections
The team tested how ChatGPT could be useful for Democracy Technologies - Democracy Technologies
How ChatGPT-3 Will Transform Politics (Probably For the Worse) - Micah L. Sifry, The Connector
ChatGPT is the future of politics - Conservative Home (UK)
Rep. Jake Auchincloss uses ChatGPT artificial intelligence to write House speech - WBZ
ChatGPT/Bing 2024: AI is better than no intelligence - Project director Peter Loge in The Hill
Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots - New York Times
ChatGPT: Use of AI chatbot in Congress and court rooms raises ethical questions - France24
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology - New York Times
How ChatGPT Will Strain a Political System in Peril - The New Yorker
AI’s Powers of Political Persuasion - Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Rise of the Chatbot: Alabama lawmakers confront questions about artificial intelligence - AL.com
Progressive Tech Investors Want AI Offerings For Campaigns - Campaigns & Elections
AI Goes to K Street: ChatGPT Turns Lobbyist
Automated influence campaigns could spell trouble for society - Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum
How Political Campaigns Can Benefit from ChatGPT - BASK Insights (political consulting firm)
A Congressman Goes to A.I. School - HardFork Podcast
(Edited 3-10-23)