How AI can rig polls
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-Apr-2026 03:16 ET (3-Apr-2026 07:16 GMT/UTC)
New research from Dartmouth reveals that artificial intelligence can now corrupt public opinion surveys at scale—passing every quality check, mimicking real humans, and manipulating results without leaving a trace. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show just how vulnerable polling has become.
The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what’s possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by genetic mutations. But so far, attempts to use the technology to address brain-based genetic disorders have proved challenging in the lab. Scientists have now discovered why. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Gladstone Institutes, the Innovative Genomics Institute, and UC Berkeley have shown that neurons and other nondividing cells respond differently to CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing than dividing cells.