Our chapter! preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/... "AI is more likely to reinforce existing patterns of [information] exposure and behavior than it is to transform how people understand and relate to the political world" (w/@jenpans.bsky.social @aasiegel.bsky.social @yamilrvelez.bsky.social)

Nate Persily@persily.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

New study out in Nature Human Behaviour: 37 million US users were exposed to deceptive networks on Facebook & 3 million on Instagram during the 2020 elections—roughly 15% and 2% of active users. 🧵

New paper with @xuxupolitics.bsky.social in @pnasnexus.org: Chinese LLMs refuse politically sensitive questions at far higher rates than US models — and it's not explained by training data or market differences. Government regulation appears to be a key driver. ow.ly/Y7UR50Yl8KA

PNAS Nexus@pnasnexus.org · 5mo ago

Chinese chatbots are likely censored by the Chinese government, and will often refuse to answer or provide inaccurate answers to politically charged questions, regardless of whether they are posed in English or Chinese. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/Y7UR50Yl8KA

China’s chatbots are censored by the state. In our @pnasnexus.org paper with @jenpans.bsky.social, we find substantially higher levels of political censorship in large language models (LLMs) originating from China than those developed outside China. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... 🧵

Political censorship in large language models originating from China

Abstract. A growing body of research on large language models (LLMs) has identified various biases, primarily in contexts where biases reflect societal pat

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Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...