Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science

J.A.T. received a small fee from Facebook to compensate him for administrative time spent in organizing a 1-day conference for approximately 30 academic researchers and a dozen Facebook product managers and data scientists that was held at NYU in the summer of 2017 to discuss research related to civic engagement. J.A.T. is also one of the co-leads of the external academic team for the 2020 U.S. Facebook & Instagram Election Study, a project that began in early 2020 and is still ongoing at the time of the posting of this pre-print. He was not compensated financially for his participation in this project by Meta, but the project involves working collaboratively with Meta researchers. J.A.T. received a 2024 Google Research Grant to support a research project on “From Search Engines to Answer Engines: Testing the Effects of Traditional and LLM-Based Search on Belief in the Veracity of News”. For an unrelated project, J.A.T. was listed as a co-investigator on a "Foundational Integrity Research: Misinformation and Polarization" grant application for an unrestricted grant from Meta that was awarded to a P.I. at a different university; no funds were ever transferred to J.A.T as part of this grant.