AI misinformation threatens the Wisdom of the crowd
Emil Svenberg
Submitted to AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.
We investigate how AI generated misinformation can cause problems for democratic epistemics.
Reviews
I like the thrust! I am concerned about general group epistemics. Wondering how this plays out in a more hierarchical network though.
Cool to see a connection being made to social choice theory and very nice to integrate mathematical analysis with simulations. Improvements could focus on getting clearer on the threat models (how exactly AI misinfo would end up being a common cause of voter choices). Another fruitful direction might be thinking about potential tell-tale signs of this happening that could be the basis of detection and mitigation strategies.
Cite this project
@misc{svenberg2024ai,
title = {{AI misinformation threatens the Wisdom of the crowd}},
author = {Emil Svenberg},
year = {2024},
month = may,
note = {Submitted to AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks, an Apart Research Sprint},
howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/ai-misinformation-threatens-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd}},
url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/ai-misinformation-threatens-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd}
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