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Mock-up AI chatbot conversation between a human user and an AI chatbot over a gradient blue/purple background with white text boxes and a red text box from the AI bot that says 'Your Ad Here.'
Content type: Long Read

From chatbots to adbots: sharing your thoughts with advertisers

IntroductionIn early October this year, Google announced its AI Overviews would now have ads. AI companies have been exploring ways to monetise their AI tools to compensate for their eye watering costs, and advertising seems to be a part of many of these plans. Microsoft have even rolled out an entire Advertising API for its AI chat tools.As AI becomes a focal point of consumer tech, the next host of the AdTech expansion regime could well be the most popular of these AI tools: AI chatbots.…
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Content type: Advocacy

Technology, Data and Elections: A Checklist on the Election Cycle

Democratic engagement is increasingly mediated by digital technology. Whether through the use of social media platforms for political campaigning, biometric registration of voters and e-voting, police monitoring of political rallies and demonstrations using facial recognition, and other surveillance methods, technology is now infused into the political process. These technologies rely on collecting, storing, and analysing personal information to operate. Much recent debate around…