The Horse Race

Steve Koczela; Jennifer Smith

Your weekly update on Massachusetts politics, policy and elections. Hosted by Steve Koczela and Jennifer Smith.

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The Horse Race

Episodes (409)

Apr 9th Polling the void: Chatbots as human substitutes
Apr 2nd Donald’s Enmity and Intrusion
Mar 26th Neigh Sayers

The Horse Race

Apr 9, 2026
35 minutes
33 MB

Do we need humans to gather public opinion anymore? This week, Steve and Jenn are joined by Rich Parr, VP of the MassINC Polling Group, to stare into the abyss of "silicon sampling" and what it means for polling. How is it done? How accurate is it? Should you have to disclose the fact that your public opinion research did not include... the public? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/article/out-of-one-many-using-language-models-to-simulate-human-samples/035D7C8A55B237942FB6DBAD7CAA4E4

The Horse Race

Polling the void: Chatbots as human substitutes

Steve Koczela; Jennifer Smith

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