The US is heading into its first presidential election since generative AI tools have gone mainstream. And the companies offering these tools — like Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft — have each made announcements about how they plan to handle the months leading up to it. This election season, we’ve already seen AI-generated images in ads and attempts to mislead voters with voice cloning. The potential harms from AI chatbots aren’t as visible in the public eye — yet, anyway.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4 was able to correctly list the seven different forms of valid ID for voters, and it also identified that the next significant election is the primary runoff election on May 28th. Perplexity AI answered those questions correctly as well, linking multiple sources at the top. Copilot got its answers right and even did one better by telling me what my options were if I didn’t have any of the seven forms of ID. .