Hey everyone, welcome to your undivided attention.

This is Tristan.

And this is Aza.

Sometimes it's really difficult to get a grasp on exactly how AI is going to impact our lives

and our democracies.

And one of the ways Tristan and I like to explain it is that social media was our first contact with AI.

As a society, we're now very familiar with all of those downsides of unregulated tech, and what we're starting to see now is our second contact with AI.

2024 will be a massive global experiment in the potential for how our second contact with AI that is

generative AI, creation AI, can supercharge the harms of social media.

2024 will be the biggest election year in world history.

There's something like 2 billion people who would be undergoing democratic elections this year.

From 70 countries, including some of the world's largest democracies, the United States, the UK,

Indonesia, India, as well as countries like Taiwan, Brazil, Venezuela, Russia, South Africa, and Mexico.

So today on the podcast, we're going to be talking to two experts on how the new wave of AI is going to crash over democracies

There are too many elections for us to cover in one episode and the experts we've selected

focus on the US and the UK, but many of the ideas and trends we cover here apply globally.

Our guest today are Carl Miller, who is research director for the

Center for the Analysis of Social Media, F UK Political Think Tank, Demos, and Renee di Resta, who's an old friend

and technical research manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory,

where her investigation into Russia's Internet research agency

was highly influential to the Senate Intelligence Committee's findings

about what Racha did during the 2016 elections,

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