{"id":242114,"date":"2026-07-10T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/artificial-intelligence-raises-new-questions-for-minnesota-campaigns-twin-cities\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:30:10","slug":"artificial-intelligence-raises-new-questions-for-minnesota-campaigns-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/artificial-intelligence-raises-new-questions-for-minnesota-campaigns-twin-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence raises new questions for Minnesota campaigns \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/07\/10\/artificial-intelligence-minnesota-campaigns\/\">Artificial intelligence raises new questions for Minnesota campaigns \u2013 Twin Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/07\/10\/artificial-intelligence-minnesota-campaigns\/\">https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/07\/10\/artificial-intelligence-minnesota-campaigns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-10 14:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.twincities.com\">www.twincities.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An AI-generated image featuring Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in a controversial ad has sparked discussions about AI&#8217;s increasing presence in political campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>The ad, made by the North Star Dawn PAC, showed Flanagan holding a pile of cash, and it raises questions about whether it violated Minnesota&#8217;s law banning political deepfakes close to a nominating convention.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Manjeet Rege, an AI expert, notes that AI&#8217;s actual use in election campaigns is largely behind the scenes, including drafting ad copies, managing opposition research, and sorting voter lists.<\/li>\n<li>There are concerns about both intentional and unintentional uses of AI in campaigns, with AI possibly providing wrong logistical information.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Zach Duckworth believes a discussion about regulating AI use in campaigns might become bipartisan, given the need to ensure voters get accurate information.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Erin Maye Quade emphasizes that while some uses of AI, like speech writing, may not be illegal, they are concerning from a human perspective.<\/li>\n<li>Several prominent campaigns did not disclose their AI use in campaigns, and there&#8217;s ongoing debate about whether deceptive use of AI undermines public trust.<\/li>\n<li>According to Rege, the use of AI in campaigns is becoming unavoidable as it&#8217;s being built into campaign-reliance apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence raises new questions for Minnesota campaigns \u2013 Twin Cities https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/07\/10\/artificial-intelligence-minnesota-campaigns\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22278412101213.jpg?w=1024&h=683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242116,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242114\/revisions\/242116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}