AI is being used a lot of ways in polling. This article discusses chatbots (essentially, AI as interviewers) and AI-powered survey analytic methods. But I need journalists covering this to understand that if you're not interviewing people, it's not a poll. So stop calling Aaru a polling firm.
The speed in which election cycles move, coupled with a steep drop of people participating in regular phone or door-to-door polls, have caused pollsters to turn to artificial intelligence for insights, both asking the questions and sometimes answering them.
The speed in which election cycles move, coupled with a steep drop of people participating in regular phone or door-to-door polls, have caused pollsters to turn to artificial intelligence for insights...
If you're interviewing an AI model, you can call that a simulated survey, or even a prediction model I suppose. But what it's not is a poll or a survey of *people*, and at least today it's only people who get to cast a ballot and whose opinions are relevant pre-election public opinion research