Robotics & Artificial Intelligence - How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Traditional Polling Elections

Robotics & Artificial Intelligence - How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Traditional
Polling Elections

In the face of a century of traditional polling to predict public opinion, there is a shakeup afoot in the prediction game. The documentary "Margin of Error: AI, Polling and Elections" examines how a startup called Advanced Symbolics uses artificial intelligence and public social-media data to forecast voter behavior. But the promise of new technology also comes with questions about its accuracy, the threat to citizens’ privacy and our democracy itself.