Imagine the year is 2029. You have been living at the same address for a decade. The postman, who knows you well, smiles as he walks to your door and hands you a bunch of letters. As you sift through them, one card grabs your attention. It says: \u201cLet us know if you are still here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s an election year and the card from the electoral office is asking you to confirm you are still a resident at the same address. It has a deadline, and you may be purged from the voter list if you don\u2019t respond to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You had read about the government using AI to detect and eliminate electoral fraud through selective querying. Is it the AI pointing fingers at you? A quick check reveals your neighbours haven\u2019t received any such cards. You feel singled out and insecure. Why have you been asked to prove that you live where you\u2019ve lived for so long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s look under the hood. You received the card because election officials had deployed an AI system that can triangulate evidence to estimate why some voters should be contacted to check whether they are still a resident at their address. It profiles voters based on whether they display the behaviour of a \u201ctypical\u201d resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To continue reading, please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article originally appeared in The Conversation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The featured image<\/a> has been used courtesy of a Creative Commons license.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dr Deepak Padmanabhan, Prof Muiris MacCarthaigh and Stanley Simoes. Article originally appeared in The Conversation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":9054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-democracy"],"mb":[],"acf":{"authors":{"simple_value_formatted":"