A Missouri Senate race that doesn’t exist. A House candidate in Washington who isn’t really on the ballot. And AI-powered websites feeding chatbots questionable information.
More people are turning to chatbots in place of search engines, and 2 in 5 Americans said they had used artificial intelligence to look up election information in a recent survey by the National Conference on Citizenship. To test how reliable chatbots are with voting information, The Washington Post challenged six of the most popular to make voter guides for addresses in every county in the United States.