Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 U.S. election concluded that Russia had worked to get President Donald Trump elected. Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP BY BARBARA A. TRISH PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE GRINNELL COLLEGE The American public is on alert about artificial intelligence and the 2024 election. A September 2024 poll by the Pew Research Center found that well over half of Americans worry that artificial intelligence – or AI, computer technology mimicking the processes and products of human intelligence – will be used to generate and spread false and misleading information in the campaign. My academic research on AI may help quell some concerns. While this innovative technology certainly has the potential to manipulate voters or spread lies at scale, most uses of AI in the current election cycle are, so far, not novel at all. I’ve identified four roles AI is playing or could play in the 2024 campaign – all arguably updated versions of familiar election ac
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