Tsinghua University published a 2024 study on artificial intelligence and American elections that discusses using AI to influence political persuasion.
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Bannon`s War RoomAug 17, 2026
The only source describing a 2024 Tsinghua study on AI and American elections is a Natalie Winters Substack post (credibility 0.40) that echoes the claim and has no independent record behind it. The claim's wording matches the passage, and the 'Sinhua' typo resolves to Tsinghua, so this is not an extraction addition.
What was said
… But, Steve, this story on the influencing the votes, is that right? The convergence of all this. People have got to subscribe to the Sub stock. I'm going to be publishing it later, but just to give you an example of some of these quotes, Sinhua University put out a 2024 study on artificial intelligence and American elections, where they're talking about weaponizing AI to look how you can move political persuasion, taking these broad categories gender, race, class, geography mapping out individual voters. The tech can then learn a person's political preferences, psychology, and behavior, analyze voting propensity, and use the response to refine the next message to …
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Supports. A Substack post by Natalie Winters, published the same day as the claim, says Tsinghua's Center for International Security and Strategy produced a 2024 study on AI in American elections describing how AI can move political persuasion from broad categories to individual voters.[2]
Context. That post is a low-credibility, unrated outlet tied to the same commentary circle as the claimant, and it repeats the claim rather than independently documenting the study, so it is circular and cannot corroborate it.[2]
Context. The Tsinghua pages in the results (a 2024 news digest from the CISS site and an AIR news page) do not mention any study on AI and American elections, and the Tsinghua paper page is about government AI adoption, so none directly addresses the claimed study.[4][5][6]
Context. Independent research on AI political persuasion exists (PNAS 2024 microtargeting experiment, Nature 2025 persuasion study), but none of these is attributed to Tsinghua, so they do not confirm or refute the claimed Tsinghua study.[1][3]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated, 1 tier 1
- 1Evaluating the persuasive influence of political ...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Chinese State Researchers Mapped How To Target ...nataliegwinters.substack.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialoguesnature.com · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 4Paper - Exploring cross-national divide in government adoption of ...aiig.tsinghua.edu.cn · not rated · cited for: context
- 5清华大学战略与安全研究中心 -人工智能与国际安全项目ciss.tsinghua.edu.cn · not rated · cited for: context
- 6AIRair.tsinghua.edu.cn · not rated · cited for: context
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