The National Democratic Training Committee is introducing a playbook for using artificial intelligence in political campaigns. This initiative aims to assist Democratic candidates in creating social content, crafting voter outreach messages, and conducting district research. The organization, founded in 2016, has trained over 120,000 Democrats and focuses on empowering smaller campaigns. Training includes AI's functionality and responsible use cases, emphasizing the need for human review of AI-generated materials. This initiative highlights AI as essential for gaining a competitive advantage in upcoming elections while preventing misuse of the technology.
"AI and responsible AI adoption is a competitive necessity. It's not a luxury," says Donald Riddle, senior instructional designer at NDTC. "It's something that we need our learners to understand and feel comfortable implementing so that they can have that competitive edge and push progressive change and push that needle left while using these tools effectively and responsibly."
The three-part training includes an explanation on how AI works, but the meat of the course revolves around possible AI use cases for campaigns. Specifically, it encourages candidates to use AI to prepare text for a variety of platforms and uses, including social media, emails, speeches, phonebanking scripts, and internal training materials that are reviewed by humans before being published.
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