2024: the year when billions of people worldwide go to the polls. But also the year when artificial intelligence (AI) pushes forward.According to experts, an exciting combination, because although AI tools are already being used in election campaigns, there are no rules for them yet.
In this video of the Nieuwsuur series Ophef, we look at those tools and the terms that companies have set themselves. We traveled to Indonesia, where election teams were already using AI extensively early this year, and we saw how that made campaigns unprecedentedly effective.
And we took the test ourselves in the Netherlands. Exactly how far do these AI tools go here? Nieuwsuur discovered; beyond what their own rules allow.
How bad is that? Can artificial intelligence influence our elections? Are we even ready for the combination of AI and this election year?
