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The Vote Was Shaped Before Anyone Voted

Feature scope, voter sampling and question wording each changed preferences across an 809-person moral-AI study.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-17-018
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Summary

Feature scope, voter sampling and question wording each changed preferences across an 809-person moral-AI study.

About one-third of tested features differed by political ideology, and wording could widen or narrow ideological gaps by as much as one scale point.

Why it matters

Feature scope, voter sampling and question wording each changed preferences across an 809-person moral-AI study.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Feature scope, voter sampling and question wording each changed preferences across an 809-person moral-AI study.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-17-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.14522arXiv · primary research

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