OpenAI is moving its election playbook from general guidance to live data and provenance checks. For the US and Brazil, ChatGPT will point to AP vote counts, while a public tool will test OpenAI-origin SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata.
Election-season AI safety is moving from slogans to measurable tests. On April 24, 2026, Anthropic published Claude election metrics showing 100% and 99.8% appropriate handling on a 600-prompt misuse-and-legitimate-use set for Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6, plus 90% and 94% performance in influence-operation simulations.
r/artificial pushed this study because it replaces vague AGI doom with a much more concrete threat model: swarms of AI personas that can infiltrate communities, coordinate instantly, and manufacture the appearance of consensus.