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🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Today, an episode of The TED AI Show. 2024 was the biggest election year in modern history, with over 50 countries going out to the polls across the globe. And artificial intelligence has fully seeped into global politics – from deepfakes to AI bots that can ingest thousands and thousands of documents to make policy decisions. The TED AI Show host Bilawal Sidhu talks with journalist Vittoria Elliot, who’s been leading on WIRED’s AI Elections Projects, to discuss how AI is reshaping the political landscape in surprising ways. The two explore the good, the bad, and the downright bizarre – and share what the U.S. can learn from other countries to adapt and critically engage with "the new normal."

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0:00.0	Hey, TED Talks Daily listeners. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Today we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you. It's been a big election year, and it's the first one where AI has dominated the conversation.
0:23.1	Generative AI has made it easier than ever to create voter confusion through deepfakes and misleading false news articles.
0:30.9	This week, we're sharing an episode of the TED AI show all about this emerging technology's impact on our political landscape.
0:38.6	Journalist, Victoria Elliott, shares how people are using artificial intelligence programs
0:43.1	right now and what governments need to do to protect future AI. Chaos.
0:48.8	If you want to hear more fascinating discussions about AI, listen to the TEDAI show wherever
0:53.8	you get your podcasts. Learn more about the TED AI show wherever you get your podcasts.
0:55.5	Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com. Now on to the episode.
1:05.1	So, I've been thinking a lot about the elections this year, because this year feels different.
1:12.9	But not for all the reasons you're thinking about.
1:15.8	I'd say this year, national and local elections are objectively different from any other,
1:20.8	because it's going to be our first AI election.
1:24.0	We're less than 100 days until Election Day.
1:27.0	And you've probably seen it amidst all the other
1:29.5	election news. AI is entering the chat. But it wasn't until I was scrolling on X one day that I realized
1:36.1	what the next few months might look like. X had just updated Grock, their AI chatbot, so that it
1:42.7	could generate images using a largely uncensored open source
1:45.6	model called Flux. And immediately, the results were far more unhinged than anything we've seen.
1:52.7	Now, we've been able to generate images in the past, but this is the first time we've had these
1:57.0	capabilities put into a social media app that 250 million people use every day.
2:03.2	I saw photorealistic pictures of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in bizarre situations
2:08.2	that range from easily click-batable images of them lovingly holding hands to skin-crawling images
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