It's being adopted quickly, and then it's in a technology that's being adopted on top of a society that is just, as you know, really unstable.

Just a lot of, you know, challenges around trust in institutions, polarization, economic inequality that's pretty, you know, significant.

And so introducing a technology this quickly that's general purpose, I think, is cause for the answer.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

As you know, I have been getting really interested in the topic of artificial intelligence,

which, like it or not not is going to have huge

impacts on the world. Now, in some of the past episodes, we've looked at just how AI systems

actually work. We've had Jeffrey Hinton and David Bauer talk us through how to understand

the technology behind artificial intelligence. We have talked about some of the really high-stakes implications of AI.

Nick Sauri told us about why he's really worried about the existential risk from AI.

But we haven't really had a broad conversation about the different kind of ways in which

artificial intelligence is likely to transform the political world

and how it is that we should think about governing AI, what kind of public policy response

we should mount to this important new all-purpose technology.

Well, a little while ago I was at a conference where somebody I have known for a while

gave a presentation about those topics

that I found to be really helpful in making me think through just the different kind of

buckets of impact that AI is likely to have.

From straightforward stuff like the administration of elections, too much bigger things,

like the way it will transform our basic socioeconomic context or might

change warfare in the 21st century. And so I decided to invite Kelly Bowen on to have a conversation

about all of these things together on the podcast. Kelly is the inaugural director of a democracy rights and governance initiative

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