Can AI Swing The Election?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As politicians from around the globe prepare to touch down in England for Rishi Sunak's AI summit, Matt asks the experts what risks this new technology poses for next year's campaign and elections around the world.
Plus: Columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss Keir Stamer allowing his MPs to undermine his position on a ceasefire in the Middle East, the blockbuster week ahead in the covid inquiry and the accents replacing cockney and RP.
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| 1:07.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shorty bringing the best to my times video |
| 1:10.7 | show. You can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 till 1, on your DAB radio, on your smart speaker, |
| 1:15.6 | or download the times radio app. Massive thanks to Patrick McGuire for looking after the |
| 1:19.6 | place last week while I was off, mostly talking about my book, if I'm not mistaken, |
| 1:23.0 | so it looked quite a lot like work. But I'm back. Now, and of course, tomorrow, Tuesday, |
| 1:27.6 | October the 31st, we launched How to Win an Election. It's a brand new podcast featuring |
| 1:34.0 | Peter Madison Polymer Kenzie in Daniel Finkelstein. If you've enjoyed Danny over the last three or |
| 1:39.0 | so years, talking about how politics works on Red Box, then you are going to love this. |
| 1:44.2 | Poly has been part of the times radio show for some time as well, from Think Time Thursday, |
| 1:48.0 | and Peter Madison needs no introduction. The three of them taking us through basic counting down |
| 1:52.5 | probably the next year up to the general election, and taking us behind the scenes of being in similar |
| 1:58.4 | campaigns before they've both won, and let's be honest, lost millions of votes over the years. It's |
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