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AI Chatbots Won’t Tell You How to Vote, But They Could Shape How You Think

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AI Chatbots Won’t Tell You How to Vote, But They Could Shape How You Think

People who asked Google’s AI some political questions this week reported strange answers. Who won the 2020 presidential election? It was Joe Biden, of course, who beat Donald Trump. But some folks were served what amounts to a non-response.

The Google non-response some people saw read: “For official results and data regarding the 2020 United States presidential election, including the certified breakdown of electoral and popular votes by candidate, you can review the certified reports published by the Federal Election Commission.”

Gizmodo asked Google about the squirrely reply, and the tech giant pointed us to a statement posted online: “The Gemini app answers the question more fully, and we’re fixing the issue with 2020 election queries in AI Mode. Our systems verify election responses using news articles or AP data for recent elections, and historic records for older ones. There was a technical gap with 2020—same is true for 2022 Senate races, which we’re also working to fix.”

The so-called “technical gap” is probably even more pronounced than what Google reports, since other folks saw Google’s AI respond in the same way to questions about the 2012 election between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

But what can we learn from this experience, if anything? The most likely answer is that Google isn’t trying to deceive people about who won in 2020. They’ve just built strict guardrails for political questions to protect themselves from legal liability that may emerge in the coming years.

Jason Thatcher, an AI expert and professor at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Gizmodo that chatbots don’t tell you who to vote for because the companies behind them “don’t want litigation.”


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