AI in Political Science & Social Psychology

AI language models now predict public opinion. The effects of media on our society ripple beyond the individual, giving rise to new social movements and determining national agendas, especially in election years. AI in Political Science & Social Psychology.

Can we measure the effects of media on our society with AI (eg simple BERT systems, the encoder-stack of a transformer architecture)? We are increasingly concerned about whether misinformation, fake news, and echo chambers are wearing away at the public ethos.

New research conducted by Harvard University and MIT raises several questions centered around AI’s ability to mirror and mimic beliefs derived from human language. And if a BERT model is able to predict the public opinion a week ahead?!
Can AI language models really predict public opinion?

Literature (all rights are with the corresponding authors):
"Language models trained on media diets can predict
public opinion"
Eric Chu, Jacob Andreas, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Deb Roy

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#psychology

[timduck]

This is Big Brother! we need to find a counter measure quickly.

[ericsabbath]

That's a higly necessary critique. That's exactly how bourgeois media works to make profit over our guided behavior.

[amotkram]

Information, mindfulness and intent discernment is the only defense for the individual. As society is controlled for the purpose of those using AI for their intent, whether political, economical, etc., it becomes even more important. Someone needs to train a model to teach mindfulness.

[wryltxw]

Looked at the paper. A bit confusing on how the experiment was constructed.

[Smytjf]

Hmm, I feel like opinion prediction is a recipe for disastrous tail effects as culture shifts.

[wryltxw]

I suspect MIT did all the work. And Harvard wrote the paper with so much pompous jargon like “media diet dataset”.

[LuciferHesperus]

"The medium is the message" Marshall McLuhan

[henkhbit]

Interesting article, but i think the categories influence graph will differ from country to country. The us opinion Will differ from other eu countries… and for some of the conclusions u dont need AI but its Nice to be confirmed by ai analyses.