Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a central infrastructure layer in political campaigns, reshaping how elections are financed, contested and influenced, The New York Times reports.
Campaigns and affiliated political groups are increasingly investing in AI-driven tools for voter targeting, message optimization and large-scale content generation, turning modern elections into capital-intensive, technology-enabled competition.
This shift is being accelerated by major inflows of funding from technology-aligned donors and politically active networks that see electoral outcomes as closely tied to future AI regulation and market conditions.
At the same time, AI policy has emerged as a major political fault line, with candidates and
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