AI RESEARCH
The Hidden Costs of AI-Mediated Political Outreach: Persuasion and AI Penalties in the US and UK
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.27413v1 Announce Type: cross As AI-enabled systems become available for political campaign outreach, an important question has received little empirical attention: how do people evaluate the communicative practices these systems represent, and what consequences do those evaluations carry? Most research on AI-enabled persuasion examines attitude change under enforced exposure, leaving aside whether people regard AI-mediated outreach as legitimate or not.