“.. The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months, underscoring the heightened political salience of the facilities and the AI industry that they embody.”
@heatmap.news
heatmap.news/politics/ame...
"advocates for more public-facing approaches, such as gamified learning tools and stronger collaboration between university researchers and media organisations to strengthen public comprehension of polls."
💫 New paper!
@elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social
& I are happy to see our new paper published in open access with the @ejprjournal.bsky.social
Do group-targeted campaign pledges pay off electorally?
We test this with a preregistered survey experiment in Germany.
"Why are first-year writing and reading-intensive general-education courses still the most adjunctified, lowest-paid, highest-load corner of the university, at the precise moment when their work has become the most important work the institution does?"
As companies begin to sell synthetic (AI-generated) survey responses, new research with @gelliottmorris.com and Ben Leff shows why you should be extremely skeptical of this approach:
www.verasight.io/reports/can-...
@mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social interviewed @mattmotta.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social & @klunztrujillo.bsky.social on their article "Public Risk Perceptions & Policy Attitudes Toward Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza." Check it out! on.soundcloud.com/JysieKBuo450...
Ozan Kuru
Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other ...
Verasight ran four experiments on AI "digital twins." Synthetic samples can match polls on Trump approval and the generic ballot, but fail systematically on almost everything else.
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
Big Data Kane
“I think [GenAI] will accelerate conversations around what the design of school systems will look like to best embrace more holistic learning for students, opposed to just knowledge transfer...”
I hope these companies realize they entering into conversations that have been happening for 50+ years.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
Werner Krause
Isabelle Guinaudeau
Paul Czege
The head of learning initiatives for Google Deepmind says debates about use of new technologies should focus on how to embrace more holistic teaching methods.
"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow."
The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society.
www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
