What happens when you ask an AI chatbot for political information?
In experiments with ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek, we show that even implicit demographic and ideological cues embedded in AI chats shape the news and frames users receive.
Study here: osf.io/preprints/so... @zachdickson.bsky.social
What happens when you ask an AI chatbot for political information?
In experiments with ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek, we show that even implicit demographic and ideological cues embedded in AI chats shape the news and frames users receive.
Study here: osf.io/preprints/so... @zachdickson.bsky.social
This has important implications for the epistemic dimension of democracy: as citizens turn to chatbots for political information, echo chamber effects may further intensify. If this is not addressed by developers, AI technologies risk fueling extreme fragmentation in information environments.
Roundtable on what comes next for the parties
Conservatives are aiming most of their attacks at Labour but Reform is the bigger threat to them
Meanwhile, Labour needs to outline a clearer ideological sense of what it is for rather than triangulating between Reform and Green
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We are pleased to share that the report from our 2026 Local Elections event is now available
The report brings together key insights and discussion points from the event, focusing on the evolving dynamics of local elections and their broader implications
See the report here: poal.co.uk/events/
Can political messages become too personalized ?
New podcast episode w/ @miriamsorace.bsky.social on nano-targeting now available!
📺 Stream here : pod.link/1851725697
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Happy to have contributed my reactions to the State Opening of Parliament for @uk.theconversation.com on the government’s EU bill and the current state of public opinion on UK–EU relations - UK seems locked in a suboptimal equilibrium for the foreseeable future
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Personal news: After four years at Labour, I’m moving on to set up Convergent Opinion with my brilliant co-founder
@fintan-smith.bsky.social! We’re building a new polling company to develop better ways of understanding and shifting public opinion - particularly for progressive organisations.
