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Exploring data and its influence on political behavior
Data and politics are becoming increasingly intertwined. Today’s political campaigns and voter mobilization efforts are now entirely data-driven. Voters, pollsters, and elected officials are relying on data to make choices that have local, regional, and national impacts. A Department of Political Science course offers students tools to help make sense of these choices and their…
How Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits the tech elite | TechCrunch
Elon Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire with power over the federal agencies that regulate his businesses. Since Donald Trump took office, more than three dozen employees, allies, and investors of Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have taken roles at federal agencies, helping direct billions in contracts to their companies. Companies owned,…
Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too
Research Published 2 January 2024 Authors Gamaleldin Elsayed and Michael Mozer New research shows that even subtle changes to digital images, designed to confuse computer vision systems, can also affect human perception Computers and humans see the world in different ways. Our biological systems and the artificial ones in machines may not always pay attention…
Like it or not, AI is learning how to influence you
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the…