Using generative AI for election-related research
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Using generative AI for election-related research

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 19, 20264 min
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You might say the 2026 midterms are the first big AI election. The technology has become a key political issue, it’s a significant source of fundraising and it’s also helping power campaign ads. Plus, generative AI is being looked to by voters as a tool for sorting through the deluge of information, especially in places like California where there are 14 ballot propositions to research. Marketplace's senior correspondent for Future Effects, David Brancaccio, put three AI chatbots to the test. More on this: “Electoral Hallucinations: Safeguarding UK electi...

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Money ultimately decides what gets built, what survives. Money decides what future becomes possible. So change where money goes and who controls it, then you change what becomes possible. That's Trinity Tran, Ted Fellow and co-founder of the California Public Banking Alliance and Public Bank LA.

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A public bank is owned by the people through their local government. And Trinity's spent nearly a decade pushing to make that a reality, from getting LA to pull its money out of a large-scale private bank, to helping pass the first-in-the-nation law letting California cities and counties

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start their own public banks. The reason? Los Angeles just dealt with a devastating wildfire. So if we had a public bank, it would have been able to step in to offer immediate low-cost loans

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