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In all the discussions about AI, so much focus is paid to when artificial intelligence will overwhelm

human strengths, like when it's super intelligent or when humans are no longer in control of it.

But in his 2024 talk, attorney and activist Lawrence Lessig warns us that we've already crossed a point that needs a lot more attention,

the point at which AI overwhelmed human weaknesses.

He explains that problem and what we should do about it after the break.

And now our TED Talk of the Day.

So in January 6th, 2021, my nation suffered a little bit of a democracy heart attack.

Thousands of Americans had been told that the election had been stolen and tens of thousands of them

showed up because they believed the election had been stolen.

And indeed, in polling immediately after January 6th, the Washington Post found 70% of Republicans

believed the election had been stolen, and a majority

of college-educated Republicans believed the election had been stolen.

That was their perception.

And I don't know what the right way to act on that perception is.

They thought the right way was to defend what they thought was a democracy stolen.

Now, these numbers were astonishing.

30% or two-thirds of Republicans believing the election was stolen, but even more extraordinary

are these numbers. The fact that in the three years, since that astonishing event, the numbers

have not changed. The same number believed today that the election was stolen as believed it was stolen three years ago,

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