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Inside the plan to use AI to purge voter rolls (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 weeks ago by spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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Nancy Gay, the executive director of Columbia County’s Board of Elections, told 404 Media that the county ultimately did not use EagleAI this year because it ran out of time to get trained on it before the election. But the audio shows how the software was pitched, what voters in the county think about it, and, most importantly, show how some election officials have in some cases begun repeating and spreading ideas that are popular with election deniers.

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[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly not surprising that AI will be weaponized to disenfranchise voters and disproportionately affect the kind of people those who are pushing for it's adoption don't want to vote.