{"id":78101,"date":"2026-08-31T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/ai-is-hurting-us-politics-heres-how-candidates-could-use-it-for-good-bruce-schneier-and-nathan-e-sanders\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:55:02","slug":"ai-is-hurting-us-politics-heres-how-candidates-could-use-it-for-good-bruce-schneier-and-nathan-e-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/ai-is-hurting-us-politics-heres-how-candidates-could-use-it-for-good-bruce-schneier-and-nathan-e-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is hurting US politics. Here\u2019s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2026\/08\/18\/young-adults-in-the-us-are-increasingly-wary-of-ai-concerned-it-will-take-jobs\/\">anxiety<\/a> about AI\u2019s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/08\/ai-ads-political-campaigns\">spread<\/a> lies. The White House is posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/29\/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us\">slopaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real opportunity to use AI to make campaigning better. The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters\u2019 concerns, engage constituents more inclusively, and formulate policy platforms that are more responsive to our input. There are vanishingly few examples of this in US politics, but groups in Japan, Scotland and the US\u2019s own academic and private institutions show how that could change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/31\/ai-politics-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI\u2019s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The White &#8230; <a title=\"AI is hurting US politics. Here\u2019s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/ai-is-hurting-us-politics-heres-how-candidates-could-use-it-for-good-bruce-schneier-and-nathan-e-sanders\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI is hurting US politics. Here\u2019s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}