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Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is there a vision of our future where AI can help our democracies thrive, rather than just survive? With election season underway, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang returns to the podcast to discuss how to create a resilient democracy in the age of AI.

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Imagine that

0:05.0

the 2024 was the year the democracies

0:07.0

implemented a broad suite of upgrades that made them future proof to AI attacks.

0:14.0

Upgrades like verified phone numbers, a concept called pre-bunking,

0:19.0

implementation of multiple backup systems, always assuming that you are going to be hacked.

0:25.2

And using paper ballots for elections letting citizens use their own video to verify all the

0:30.0

counting.

0:31.0

These are the kinds of upgrades that can make a democracy resilient in the age of

0:34.8

AI. And the best living example of that is Taiwan. Because about a month ago Taiwan had its

0:39.9

major presidential election in which everyone thought that China would be using the latest AI tools to influence the outcome and yet Taiwan survived

0:48.0

In this episode we're going to go on a tour of what Taiwan has done under the leadership of Audrey Tang,

0:53.4

who serves as the Minister of Digital Affairs.

0:56.0

We've had Audrey on the podcast before,

0:57.8

but we wanted to have her back

0:58.9

to talk through how she understands this moment

1:01.0

in AI development,

1:02.2

especially coming off of her party winning a new

1:04.2

majority in Taiwan's election at the start of this year.

1:07.0

So Audrey, we are so excited to have you back again.

1:12.8

Welcome to your undivided attention.

1:14.9

Happy to be back.

1:16.4

Okay, so when we think of AI in election harms,

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