#363: AI and Elections

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

TechFreedom’s Ari Cohn and Corbin Barthold discuss whether AI is going to spark an “infocalypse,” bring about the “collapse of reality,” and destroy our elections. Is AI about to “flood” our “screens” with “misinformation” that’s “dangerous to democracy”? Notwithstanding these quotes from recent press stories, the answer is probably no. Ari’s Senate testimony (http://tinyurl.com/y22uvkch) What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes (http://tinyurl.com/2p8kwdc9) Scott Brennen + Matt Perault paper (http://tinyurl.com/33pc6hcz) Tech Policy Podcast #358: Information Animals Fighting Information Wars (http://tinyurl.com/38a4dxdf) Tech Policy Podcast #359: Your Right to Lie — With Jeff Kosseff (http://tinyurl.com/mh88szjt)

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0:00.0	Headline.
0:25.5	2024 is the biggest election year in history.
0:31.6	That's from The Economist.
0:34.9	There are a bunch of important elections happening worldwide in the next 12 months,
0:41.5	including, of course, a presidential election here in the United States.
0:47.6	Headline, democracy isn't ready for its AI test.
0:56.0	That one's from Axios.
0:59.9	Conditions are ripe, says another Axios article,
1:04.9	for bad actors to use generative AI to amplify efforts to suppress votes, libel candidates, and incite violence.
1:10.2	There was a great essay in The New Yorker recently by Daniel Imrewar
1:15.5	about how these concerns are probably overblown.
1:20.1	Along the way, though, he presented some other fine specimens.
1:27.3	Deep fake videos herald a coming in phocalypse, he wrote,
1:32.8	quoting AI expert Nina Schick.
1:36.1	They're going to bring about the collapse of reality, he wrote,
1:41.7	quoting Atlantic staffer Franklin IV.
1:45.7	Right after those quotes,
1:47.5	Emmerwar noted that Congress has, quote, held hearings
1:51.0	about the presidential electoral consequences of this technology.
1:56.6	Hey, I know someone who testified at one of those hearings.
2:01.8	He's here with me today.
2:05.0	Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast.
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