AI chatbots give ‘unreliable and biased’ advice to voters, says Dutch watchdog

Data protection authority warns against using AI as a voting aid tool days before national elections in the Netherlands

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AI chatbots are unreliable and clearly biased" when offering voting advice, the Dutch data protection authority (AP) has said, warning of a threat to democracy eight days before national elections.

The four chatbots tested by the AP often end up with the same two parties, regardless of the user's question or command", the authority said in a report ahead of the 29 October election.