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The democratic ethics of artificially intelligent polling

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This paper examines the democratic ethics of artificially intelligent polls. Driven by machine learning, AI electoral polls have the potential to generate predictions with an unprecedented level of granularity. We argue that their predictive power is potentially desirable for electoral democracy. We do so by critically engaging with four objections: (1) the privacy objection, which focuses on the potential harm of the collection, storage, and publication of granular data about voting preferences; (2) the autonomy objection, which argues that polls are an obstacle to independently formed judgments; (3) the tactical voting objection, which argues that voting strategically on the basis of polls is troublesome; and finally (4) the manipulation objection, according to which malicious actors could systematically bias predictions to alter voting behaviours.

Opinion pollingArtificial intelligenceMachine learning

Roberto Cerina、Elise Roumeas

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Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 900, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands

Global and Local Governance, University of Groningen, Campus Fryslan, Wirdumerdijk 34, Leeuwarden 8911 CE, Friesland, The Netherlands

2025

AI & society

AI & society

ISSN:0951-5666
年,卷(期):2025.40(5)
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