Election information and safeguards in 2026

2026 is the world’s second major election year since generative AI became widely available, and we’re continuing to build on the foundation we laid in 2024 to help protect elections in countries and territories around the world.

Our focus is to build and responsibly deploy groundbreaking products in ways that:

Monitor bias in our models to keep ChatGPT’s responses politically neutral

While the public, policymakers, campaigns, and companies work to develop norms for AI use in politics, we continue to prohibit the use of our products to create or distribute scaled campaign messaging for or against a candidate, political party, or ballot measure. We do think political campaigns should be able to use our tools for responsible, human-directed work, like drafting internal briefings, planning, everyday writing, translation work, compliance, and administrative tasks. These use cases are allowed under our usage policies.

This is an important moment for cyber defenders across industries, and we believe AI plays a critical role in hardening digital infrastructure—including systems that support elections. OpenAI is committed to building resilience across the infrastructure stack, including in ways that support election execution.

And we are excited to support legislation that would advance transparency:

We will continue to learn from partners, update our safeguards, and adapt. Our goal is to support people’s ability to participate freely in elections and make their own decisions—with reliable information, transparency, and effective safeguards. We look forward to deepening the ways we can support our users, civil society, and voters as they participate in elections this year and beyond.

People already use ChatGPT to ask practical questions in their preferred languages about civic events: how to register, where to vote, what deadlines apply, what’s happening with a developing news event, or where to find official election results.

Building on our efforts in 2024, we are working with partners to direct people to reliable sources of information about voting. Beginning this fall in the United States and Brazil, OpenAI will provide live vote counts from The Associated Press ⁠ (opens in a new window) as results roll in on election night. In the US, we will also partner with Democracy Works ⁠ (opens in a new window) to display reliable information about voting and registration processes, including voting locations and other election logistics, when people ask about those topics. Globally, we will continue to refine the way web search surfaces helpful information with source links.

Since 2024, we have continued to improve the quality of information people get when they ask ChatGPT about election topics and breaking news. ChatGPT can search the web to provide stronger answers with source links so people can go deeper.