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‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ AI campaign may cost it majority government
According to the description, Guardian Australia reports that Victorian Coalition MPs criticised the pre-election campaign of the conservative lobby group Advance, which the headline calls an AI campaign, and warned it may cost them a majority at the November state election. Advance dismissed the criticism and said the poll is a trial run for the next federal election.
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life?
- People
- Benita Kolovos (Wrote it) · Henry Belot (Wrote it)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 19, 2026, via
the-guardian-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- The Guardian, “‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ AI campaign may cost it majority government”, October 18, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/guardian-2026-10-18-victorian-coalition-advance-campaign
Our notesLight lane: from the triage excerpt only. The excerpt does not say how AI features in the campaign; the AI link comes from the headline alone. Possibly off-topic for the Base.