AI and Elections: The Narrative Approach
摘要
Although the concept of “narrative intelligence,” or the ability to comprehend the impact and influence of narratives on public behavior and opinion, is relatively new, there is a rich research tradition related to narratives that can inform how AI enables and challenges what we can and ought to know about narrative circulation and reception. Specifically, AI can be useful to help understand what claims circulate in and across narratives, as well as in identifying who circulates what narratives. Less common and more difficult, AI can be used in planning and modeling narrative circulation and evaluating audience impact and reception. Regardless of application, AI brings new tools to the study of narratives, but understanding the role of narratives in elections nevertheless requires a robust, holistic, and interdisciplinary approach. This chapter brings together research from journalism, communication, international relations, and computing to describe and set a research agenda for how AI impacts election narratives.