A.I. in Political Campaigns

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Politics

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Travis talks with Dr. Michael Cohen, author of Modern Political Campaigns, and Julie Sweet, author of the American Association of Political Consultants’ Deepfake Law Compliance Guide for Political Campaigns, about the role of artificial intelligence in political campaigns. Topics Travis, Julie, and Michael cover include: How campaigns are using AI and how they can be compliant with state laws and regulations What the use of AI will mean for the future of the campaign workforce The current state of and future prospects for academic research on AI in campaigns and elections Follow Michael Cohen on LinkedIn. Follow Julie Sweet on LinkedIn. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal, hooligans.
0:05.1	I love.
0:05.6	The government, hug the government, hug the government, love.
0:10.2	The government, hug the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on
0:16.6	American politics and policy.
0:18.8	I'm Travis Taylor, a political scientist and public opinion researcher.
0:22.5	On today's episode of the politics, guys, we're going to be talking about an issue that has risen
0:26.5	to prominence very quickly and with quite a force, artificial intelligence. Specifically,
0:31.9	we'll talk about how AI is shaping political campaigns and what that means for campaign practitioners, scholars, and
0:38.9	most importantly, for voters. I'm joined on this special episode of The Politics Guys by Dr. Michael
0:44.9	Cohen, founder and CEO of Cohen Research Group, whose book Modern Political Campaigns, How
0:50.2	Professionalism, Speed, and Technology have revolutionized elections, covers the use of AI in campaigns, and by Julie Sweet,
0:57.9	the Director of Advocacy and Industry Relations for the American Association of Political Consultants.
1:04.3	She's also the author of the AAPC's recently released AI Compliance Guide.
1:09.4	Julie, Mike, welcome to the Politics Guys podcast.
1:12.0	Thanks.
1:12.8	Good to be you.
1:13.2	Thanks for having us.
1:14.3	It's great to have you both.
1:16.5	We're going to be talking a lot about AI today.
1:20.3	This is an episode dedicated to the use of AI and campaigns, artificial intelligence.
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