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FP at Davos: The Year the World Votes

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Foreign Policy

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The rise of artificial intelligence, and its potential risk to the democratic process, is top of mind in a year of record elections. From mis- and disinformation to deepfake videos, this emerging technology could dramatically shape election outcomes. How should policymakers and tech companies work together to combat this threat? Host Ravi Agrawal moderated a panel discussion titled “Protecting Democracy Against Bots and Plots” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Panelists: Jan Lipavský is the foreign minister for the Czech Republic. Smriti Zubin Irani is India’s minister of women and child development.  André Kudelski is the CEO of the Kudelski Group. Alexandra Reeve Givens is the CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology. Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Suggested reading: Ravi Agrawal: The Year the World Votes Rishi Iyengar: What AI Will Do to Elections Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The Specter of Nationalism Jan-Werner Müller: The Myth of Social Media and Populism Leslie Vinjamuri: What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FPLives.

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Welcome to the show.

1:11.6

I'm in Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.

1:16.6

The theme this year is rebuilding trust, an acknowledgement of sorts that trust in the global system feels particularly low right now, as listeners of this podcast know all too well, with several wars

1:30.0

raging around the world, our world order is struggling to impose, well, order. Leaders are acting

1:37.4

with impunity and the old checks and balances don't seem to be working as well. Will any of that get

1:43.2

fixed at Davos? I doubt it.

1:46.6

Davos is often reviled for being an elite bubble, and it is that. But it's also a rare

1:51.7

forum where people from the east and west, the north and south, public and private sector,

1:57.2

can at least be in the same place to meet. It's imperfect.

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