US Democratic Party Kanddiat, Shamaine Daniels, Deploys AI As Campaign Volunteer

Candidate from the United States Democratic Party, Shamaine Daniels,

JAKARTA - A candidate from the United States Democratic Party, Shamaine Daniels, has used campaign volunteers based on artificial intelligence (AI) in his bid to run for Congress in the upcoming 2024 elections.

According to a report from Reuters, Daniels used "Ashley," which he said was the first political phone warrior to be powered by the generative artificial intelligence technology of the Civox developer. Although automatic call makers have existed for a long time, Ashley's answer was not previously recorded.

The report states that Ashley was built with "like" technology with OpenAI's ChatGPT that allows her to have an unlimited number of one-on-one conversations in real-time and is tailored to voters.

In fact, this AI call bot has reached thousands of voters in Pennsylvania as one of the volunteer Daniels campaigns.

Civox CEO Ilya Mouzykantskii predicts the use of this AI call will "grow fast" and says they intend to make tens of thousands of calls every day towards the end of the year.

"This comes for the 2024 election and comes in a very big way... The future is here."

Ashley was given the sound of a robot and revealed that she was an AI bot when talking to voters, although there were no legal requirements in the US requiring her to do so.

Civox has not disclosed the generative AI models they use properly, although they say they use more than 20 different models, both open source and propietary. These bots are trained using data available on the internet.

Prior to the 2024 elections in the US, the use of AI had become a controversial topic. In October, US senators proposed a law that would punish deep fake AI makers for being invalid.

Prior to that, companies developing AI tools had also implemented protection to stop the spread of false or misleading information. Google has made the disclosure of the use of AI in political campaign ads mandatory.

Meanwhile, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, banned the use of a generative AI ad maker for political advertisers in early November.

A recent study from Microsoft Threat Analysis Center, Microsoft's research unit, revealed that the use of AI on social media has great potential to affect voter sentiment.

Another study in Europe tested Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot, which has now changed brands to Copilot, and found that the bot provided an incorrect answer to election information as much as 30% of the time.