一个全国性拉丁裔公民参与组织正在转向人工智能应用程序，以帮助选民通过英语或西班牙语来解决日益复杂的选举制度。
A national Latino civic engagement group is turning to an AI app to help voters cut through an increasingly complicated election system — in English or Spanish.
为什么重要：近3900万西班牙裔可以在今年的中期选举中投票，他们的政治忠诚度越来越受到争夺。
Why it matters: Nearly 39 million Hispanics can vote in this year's midterms, and their political loyalties are increasingly up for grabs.
- 根据皮尤研究中心的数据，自2022年以来，西班牙裔已增加了525万合格选民，超过任何其他种族或民族群体。
• Hispanics have added 5.25 million eligible voters since 2022, more than any other racial or ethnic group, according to Pew Research Center.
- 拉丁裔选民仍然高度流动：根据NBC新闻/Telemundo的一项新民意调查，2024年支持特朗普的拉丁裔选民现在表示，他们希望民主党控制国会。
• The Latino electorate remains highly fluid: About 1 in 7 Latino voters who backed Trump in 2024 now say they want Democrats to control Congress, according to a new NBC News/Telemundo poll.
如何工作： Mi Familia en Acción上周推出了Nubi，这是一款基于人工智能的双语应用程序，可以回答有关投票、选民登记、公民身份和了解你的权利信息的问题。
How it works: Mi Familia en Acción launched Nubi last week, a bilingual AI-powered app that answers questions about voting, voter registration, citizenship and Know Your Rights information.
- 用户可以用英语或西班牙语询问有关投票地点和时间、提前投票、邮寄选票和登记的问题。
• Users can ask questions in English or Spanish about where and when to vote, early voting, mail ballots and registration.
- Nubi在所有50个州开展业务，可以根据地方或地区层面定制信息。
• Nubi operates in all 50 states and can tailor information to the local or district level.
与通用聊天机器人不同 Mi Familia en Acción总裁兼首席执行官Héctor Sánchez Barba告诉Axios，Nubi不会在开放的互联网上搜索答案。
Unlike a general-purpose chatbot Mi Familia en Acción president and CEO Héctor Sánchez Barba tells Axios that Nubi doesn't search the open internet for answers.
- 该组织从其认为可靠的来源向其提供信息，并对人工智能可以回答的内容进行人工审查和护栏。
• The organization feeds it information from sources it considers reliable, with human review and guardrails around what the AI can answer.
如果Nubi没有答案，Sánchez说，它的设计就是这样说，并将用户引导到一个值得信赖的来源或合作伙伴，而不是发明一个回应。
• If Nubi doesn't have an answer, Sánchez said, it is designed to say so and direct the user to a trusted source or partner rather than invent a response.
游戏状态： Nubi代表了五年的努力，将Mi Familia en Acción的传统组织与技术结合起来。
State of play: Nubi represents a five-year effort to marry Mi Familia en Acción's traditional organizing with technology.
该组织大约在两年前推出了一个更基本的聊天机器人，然后开发了当前的AI版本。
• The organization launched a more basic chatbot about two years ago before developing the current AI version.
- 桑切斯表示，我的家庭行动本身为开发提供了资金，但他拒绝透露成本，称其为“非常大的投资”。"
• Mi Familia en Acción financed development itself, Sánchez said, though he declined to disclose the cost, calling it a "very big investment."
- 该组织表示，随着投票规则、法院判决和政府政策的变化，计划继续更新Nubi。
• The organization says it plans to keep updating Nubi as voting rules, court decisions and government policies change. Zoom in:
放大：目标是将选举网站上的复杂搜索转化为对话。·选民可以询问他们是否可以通过邮寄投票、投票地点在哪里或者有哪些提前投票选择。
The goal is to turn a complicated search across election websites into a conversation. • A voter could ask whether they'reed, whether they can vote by mail, where their polling place is or what early-voting options exist.
- Nubi然后引导用户解决基本问题，然后给出特定于本地的答案。
• Nubi then walks the user through basic questions before giving a locally specific answer.
- 该工具定期更新，最终可以扩大其对涉及移民执法或选民在投票站遇到的问题的答案。
• The tool is updated regularly and eventually could expand its answers on questions involving immigration enforcement or problems a voter encounters at a polling place.
他们在说什么：桑切斯说：“人们不需要成为宪法律师就能找到有关他们需要如何投票的信息。”他补充说，目标是将可靠的信息放在一个地方。·他强调，努比是无党派的，不推荐候选人或事业。
What they're saying: "People don't need to be a constitutional lawyer to find information about how they need to vote," said Sánchez, adding that the goal is to put reliable information in one place. • He stressed that Nubi is nonpartisan and doesn't recommend candidates or causes.
桑切斯还表示，这项技术不会取代敲门和其他传统的组织方式，但可以将公民信息扩展到组织者很少接触到的农村或被忽视的社区。
• Sánchez also said the technology won't replace door-knocking and other traditional organizing, but could extend civic information into rural or overlooked communities that organizers rarely reach.
努比的到来正值拉丁裔选民在美国选举中发挥越来越大--也越来越不可预测--的作用之际。
Nubi arrives as Latino voters play an increasingly large — and less predictable — role in American elections.
皮尤研究中心预计，到2026年，拉美裔将占合格选民的16%，几乎是2006年9%的两倍。
• Pew projects Hispanics will account for 16% of eligible voters in 2026, nearly double their 9% share in 2006.
- 拉丁裔选民也分裂为相互竞争的政治身份，而不是一致地倾向于任何一个政党。
• Latino voters are also fragmenting into competing political identities rather than moving uniformly toward either party.
- 5月，在17个竞争激烈的众议院选区接受调查的拉丁裔选民中，有52%表示他们尚未决定或可能改变主意。
• In May, 52% ofed Latino voters surveyed in 17 competitive House districts said they were undecided or could change their minds.