00:00Can you trust AI chatbots for election voting advice?
00:07From assistance with mundane admin tasks to relationship advice,
00:11the public is increasingly turning to AI chatbots for life advice.
00:16But can you trust AI on how to vote?
00:18According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the answer is no.
00:22Ahead of the country's elections on the 29th of October,
00:25the watchdog warned that chat GPT, Gemini, Grok and Le Chat
00:28consistently recommended the two parties forecast to win the most seats.
00:33In 56% of cases, the chatbots pointed users toward
00:36Get Wilder's far-right Party for Freedom and Franz Timmerman's Green Left Labour Party.
00:42According to the research, views from the political centre were underrepresented
00:45and smaller fringe parties were almost never suggested,
00:48even when users input information that directly matched the party's views.
00:52So as long as chatbots work in the way they're currently working,
00:57I think they're fundamentally unsuitable to be used for voting advice.
01:02Our recommendation would be to only use it as one of the many sources of information
01:07and to confirm anything that a chatbot tells you that might be relevant to you.
01:12Despite this, some still believe AI can be harnessed for good,
01:15developing tailor-made election chatbots.
01:18One example is Wahlchat, which Michel Schimpf developed ahead of Germany's federal elections in February 2025.
01:25So basically what we did with our chatbot was that we made sure that it always looks in the party manifesto
01:31and sees if there is like some relevant information and then tries to answer on that.
01:37AI is like probabilistic and if you really try,
01:41you can nudge the AI into a direction that might be biased.
01:47Negative
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