Pastor present: Georgia’s Senate runoff

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Democrats will have a bit more breathing room in the Senate, with an outright majority provided by Reverend Raphael Warnock’s win. We ask what the state-level victory reveals about national politics. Algeria’s leadership has benefited from an oil-and-gas boom; lamentably, its long-suffering citizenry has not. And why an artificial intelligence success at the game Diplomacy is significant. Help us make the show better: take our listener survey at http://economist.com/intelligencesurvey For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:06.9	Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.
1:10.1	Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
1:13.4	Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
1:22.7	Algeria looked to have a strong hand on its future when popular protests ousted an unpopular president in
1:29.1	2019. But our correspondent says that problems have mounted once it became clear that the new boss
1:35.6	was very much like the old boss. And chalk up another game that souped up software can win
1:43.2	over human masters. This time, it's diplomacy. It's another game that souped up software can win over human masters.
1:44.9	This time, it's diplomacy.
1:47.2	It's a game that requires deals to be struck through chats with other players,
1:51.4	and they didn't even know they were playing a computer.
1:58.7	But first...
2:00.0	... But first... America's midterm elections last month didn't provide the red wave of Republican congressional
2:12.5	wins that many predicted. Democrats hung on to the Senate, just, but one cliffhanger remained, the race in Georgia
2:20.9	between the Donald Trump-backed Republican candidate Herschel Walker and the incumbent Democrat,
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