Nathan E. Sanders

https://nsanders.me/Nathan E. SandersApplied statistician, data scientist, astrophysicist, science communicator 2026-04-11T18:07:59+00:00 Nathan E. Sanders https://nsanders.me/ Jekyll © 2026 Nathan E. Sanders /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters2026-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-11T18:06:24+00:00 https://nsanders.me/posts/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai/ Nathan E. Sanders

An article for The Guardian about the role of AI and recent Trump administration regulatory actions in the 2026 US midterms.

Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 2026-03-20T11:26:02+00:00 https://nsanders.me/posts/japans-team-mirai-uses-tech/ Nathan E. Sanders

An article for Tech Policy Press reporting on Team Mirai's gains in the Japanes election and the future of AI in politics.

Characterizing the ability of LLMs to recapitulate Americans’ distributional responses to public opinion polling questions across political issues2026-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-11T18:07:32+00:00 https://nsanders.me/posts/characterizing-the-ability-of-llms-to-recapitulate-americans/ Nathan E. Sanders

A quantitative analysis of the capability of a foundation model (GPT-4o-mini) to predict demographic distributions of American public opinion on political issues.

Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 2026-03-06T23:14:43+00:00 https://nsanders.me/posts/dont-bet-pentagon-anthropic-public-interest/ Nathan E. Sanders

An article for The Guardian with perspective on the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a national security risk.

OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI2026-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-03-06T23:10:55+00:00 https://nsanders.me/posts/openai-canada-public-ai/ Nathan E. Sanders

An article for The Globe and Mail arguing against Canada's outsourcing of sovereign AI to American Big Tech and in favor of a Canadian Public AI solution.