{
  "id": 4645655,
  "title": "AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/ai-is-hurting-us-politics-heres-how-candidates-could-use-it-for-good",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T12:00:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/ai-politics-voters"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The White House is posting slopaganda . Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}