Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence did not ap­pear to sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­flu­ence vot­er be­hav­iour or the out­come of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, but a re­searcher is warn­ing that with­out reg­u­la­tion, AI-gen­er­at­ed po­lit­i­cal con­tent could be­come a ma­jor threat by the next elec­tion cy­cle.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies re­searcher Dr In­drani Bachan-Per­sad says while tra­di­tion­al fac­tors such as eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, gov­ern­ment per­for­mance and par­ty loy­al­ty re­mained the main dri­vers of vot­er de­ci­sions, AI is al­ready chang­ing po­lit­i­cal cam­paigns.

Her study, The Chal­lenge of Mis­in­for­ma­tion through AI-gen­er­at­ed Memes and Deep­fakes on So­cial Me­dia Plat­forms Dur­ing Elec­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go, ex­am­ined AI-gen­er­at­ed con­tent used dur­ing the 2025 elec­tion, in­clud­ing memes, deep­fakes, syn­thet­ic au­dio and videos.