How AI and deepfakes could affect this election

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The renewed bill — to address the ongoing border crisis — fails to advance from the Senate following a 43-50 procedural vote. The bipartisan legislation would have provided more money for border security and tightened asylum restrictions, among other provisions. Republican detractors viewed this latest push as a political stunt, while some progressives argued that it was too punitive. With immigration consistently rising as a top issue for voters, how might this latest congressional failure to act influence the election?

In a presidential election with two extremely unpopular candidates, down-ballot politicians in tight races are distancing themselves from the top of the ticket. They’re hoping to capitalize on popular policies without taking on too much of their party’s baggage. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s loyalists are flocking to his New York courtroom in a show of solidarity. Are average voters willing to separate candidates from their parties, and is Trump’s trial reaching anyone beyond political junkies?

AI and deepfakes pose an unprecedented threat to election integrity. With Congress and the law slow to keep pace with rapid advances in this technology, can we rely on tech companies to step up? And is government regulation of political speech a slippery slope, even in the case of misinformation and disinformation?

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0:00.0	Welcome to left right and center. I'm McKay Coppins, staff writer at the Atlantic
0:05.9	and your host this week filling in for David Green. Democrats decided to
0:10.0	revive a border bill this week with strict immigration limits.
0:14.0	The bill had gained momentum back in February as part of a compromise for funding Ukraine.
0:19.5	That was before Donald Trump leaned on congressional Republicans to kill the deal.
0:24.4	Then Ukraine funding ended up passing without the immigration measures.
0:28.2	But the border measure came up this time with less support than it had before. Not just Republicans shying away, but some Democrats
0:35.4	opposing it now as a standalone measure. So why did it come back up? Could it be pure politics? To help us parse through this move we have our left right and
0:46.3	center panel we have Mo Alethi, executive director at Georgetown University's
0:51.2	Institute of Politics and Public Service.
0:54.0	He was also Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee and an advisor to Hillary
0:58.4	Clinton.
1:00.0	And Sarah Isger is out this week, but we are fortunate to have Michaela Carr joining us.
1:04.8	Michaela was the chief of staff and general counsel to the former Speaker of the House,
1:09.1	Republican Kevin McCarthy.
1:11.1	Hello guys. Hey gang.
1:14.0	Hey, I'm okay.
1:15.0	Hi everyone.
1:16.4	So I feel like as long as I've been covering politics, immigration has been this issue where everyone says they want to fix it and
1:24.9	lots of people generally agree on how to fix it and yet bipartisan bills aimed at
1:29.8	fixing it always seem to die because one side or the other or both are playing politics.
1:37.0	So Mo, I'll start with you.
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