On the TED Radio Hour, MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle,

her latest research into the intimate relationships

people are having with chatbots.

Technologies that say, I care about you, I love you, I'm here. technologies that's on the Ted Radio Hour from

you, I love you, I'm here for you, take care of me.

The pros and cons of artificial intimacy that's on the Ted

Radio Hour from NPR. You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Jen White coming to you from Michigan Public in Ann Arbor.

And I'm Todd Zwillick in DC.

Every week leading up to the election, we're teaming up to bring you our politics series if you can keep it.

In this weekly election series we're leaving the horse race to the side.

Instead, we're focused on the stakes of this election, for people, for the country, and for our democracy.

Today we look at the miss and disinformation spreading this campaign cycle.

A first few definitions.

Disinformation is deliberately misleading.

For example, Donald Trump supporters share Disinformation is deliberately misleading.

For example, Donald Trump supporters sharing AI-generated images of him with black Americans

created to appeal to those voters.

So misinformation is spreading also. That's false information spread by people who might think it's true.

An example here is voters spreading rumors of widespread election fraud that they might believe,

though after dozens of court cases, statewide audits,

innumerable investigations, there's just no evidence for it.

Now the stakes are high for our upcoming election, for national security, and even for our

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