How is AI Threatening Elections?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at how AI could play a role in this year’s elections around the world.
Is AI threatening democracy? Is it influencing how people vote? To discuss Adam is joined by former global chair of news at Twitter (X) Vivian Schiller, chief executive of Demos Polly Curtis and executive director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge professor Gina Neff.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, today I am unilaterally without any consultation with anyone else in the |
| 0:09.6 | newscast office unveiling our election box. There are so many elections in so many places around |
| 0:16.3 | the world this year and so many different aspects to them. Basically from time to time |
| 0:20.9 | I'm going to rummage around inside it, sound effect, and see what I can |
| 0:25.6 | pull out. Let's see what today's item is. Oh, it's Rishi Sunak with a slightly |
| 0:30.3 | weird transatlantic accent because he was interviewing Elon Musk at his artificial |
| 0:34.4 | intelligence summit last year. |
| 0:35.9 | I've already had a situation happen to me with a doctored image that goes everywhere negative. |
| 0:41.5 | By the time everyone realises, well that's fake and we should stop sending it, |
| 0:45.3 | the damage is done. |
| 0:47.6 | You know, next year is where big elections across the globe, probably the first set of elections |
| 0:52.1 | where this has been a real issue. |
| 0:54.9 | So figuring out how we manage that is I think kind of mission critical for the people who want |
| 0:59.9 | the integrity of our democracy. |
| 1:02.0 | So today's offering from the brand new newscast election box, |
| 1:05.6 | hope you're getting that joke already, |
| 1:07.1 | is what does artificial intelligence mean for all this voting? |
| 1:11.2 | That's on this episode of newscast. |
| 1:12.7 | Newscast. |
| 1:13.7 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:15.2 | Why can't people buy a house? |
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