2024 Is The First ‘AI Election.’ What Does That Mean?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Exactly one year ago today, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. And quickly, the program changed the conversation around what is possible for artificial intelligence. In the past 12 months, we've seen campaign videos featuring AI-generated images, legislative proposals and a congressional hearing on AI regulation. By all accounts, the 2024 presidential election is going to be our first "AI election." However, often the specifics around AI’s impact remain vague. How exactly could it impact our electoral politics? In this episode of the 538 Politics podcast, Galen speaks with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, the interim dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Bueno de Mesquita’s research focuses on game theory, political conflict and electoral accountability, and he recently co-authored the white paper "Preparing for Generative AI in the 2024 Election: Recommendations and Best Practices Based on Academic Research." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Willie Wanker.
0:02.0	I'm something of a magician.
0:04.0	This Christmas.
0:05.0	Every good thing in this world
0:07.0	started with a dream.
0:08.0	So you hold on to yours.
0:10.0	Discover how Willie
0:11.0	Mr Wanker I can see you're a man a great engineer.
0:14.0	Became Wanker.
0:16.0	Mark my worst.
0:17.0	This is going to be the greatest chocolate shop the world has ever seen.
0:21.0	Step into a world of pure imagination.
0:23.9	I got an idea.
0:24.9	Wunka, in cinema's December 8.
0:26.9	Where do we start?
0:27.8	I'm making chocolate, of course.
0:29.0	It's almost unimaginable to me that we won't have major candidates with personalized chat
0:37.8	bots which are have a conversation with this candidate a chatbot trained to represent this candidate.
0:43.6	Wait, in fact, I'm pretty sure I received a automated text message from Nicky Haley
0:49.8	while we are recording this podcast right now.
0:52.1	It's Nicky Haley.
0:53.0	Do you have a minute to talk Gailen?
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