Researchers found some voters are using AI to understand politics ahead of the midterms, finding that the chatbots are sometimes useful, while other times they’re misleading.

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The unlikely alliance pushing back on AI
What brought Sanders and Bannon together? Growing concerns that AI is moving too fast.
Creating recipes, finding news, generating images, answering research questions, writing emails, helping with job applications: the list of what people are using AI for goes on and on. But researchers suggest that the 2026 midterms are inspiring another use for the bots: understanding election information.
Recent AI conversations raising alarms that the technology
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