{"id":199262,"date":"2025-12-17T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199262"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:34:23","slug":"ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199262","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, Shamaine Daniels, used an AI chatbot named Ashley to call voters and carry on conversations with them. \u201cHello. My name is Ashley, and I\u2019m an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels\u2019s run for Congress,\u201d the calls began. Daniels didn\u2019t ultimately win&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/12\/04\/1128824\/ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, Shamaine Daniels, used an AI chatbot named<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements.jpg",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199262-ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}