AI Literacy for Electoral Actors: Global workshops for resilient elections
Ramesh Verma (standing), Chief Electoral Officer from the state of Goa, India, at the first AI Literacy for Electoral Actors training event in November 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Credit: International IDEA/Juliane Müller
The project seeks to improve AI literacy and resilience among EMBs and civil society worldwide. The objective is to harness AI’s potential to improve electoral integrity while mitigating risks such as misinformation or marginalization by increasing knowledge on the part of EMBs and civil society. Two of five planned workshops have already taken place—in Kuala Lumpur, for electoral actors in the Asia-Pacific region, and in Tirana, for Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans.
Participants at the event in Kuala Lumpur expressed greater optimism than their counterparts at the event in Tirana, while the latter highlighted concerns over disinformation risks in particular. Participants at both events emphasized the importance of regulation and ethical standards to safeguard democracy
‘We are thinking how we, firstly, integrate AI into our own management of elections, but more particularly how ... we regulate the use of AI by political campaigners.’
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