What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
You might not know Brad Parscale by name, but you know his work: he was the digital campaign operative behind Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory. This election cycle, he’s back—and advising conservatives on how to utilize A.I. in their campaigns.
Guest: Garance Burke, global investigative journalist for the Associated Press.
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| 0:23.6 | Until 18-plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Brad Parscale used to be a bit of a nobody, a web designer without much of a public profile. |
| 0:42.0 | According to Forbes, he was... without much of a public profile. |
| 0:50.0 | According to Forbes, he was literally stalking the web design section of a Borders bookstore in San Antonio, Texas, trolling for customers. |
| 0:52.0 | But in 2012, Parskale got a customer, a very big one. |
| 0:57.0 | We need somebody that literally will take this country and make it great again. |
| 1:06.2 | Brad Buscal is the digital campaign operative who helped engineer Donald Trump's 2016 presidential victory. |
| 1:15.0 | Garons Burke is a global investigative journalist for the Associated Press. |
| 1:20.0 | He teamed up with Cambridge Analytica, listeners remember and helped propel Trump to the White House eight years ago. |
| 1:27.0 | Now, Herskow is back and Garance says this election he's bringing AI with him. |
| 1:35.0 | I've actually built software and I've built artificial intelligence and machine learning now to build |
| 1:38.9 | our own platforms. |
| 1:40.9 | Well, what he says his company can do is to help generate customized emails, |
| 1:48.0 | parse through oceans of data to figure out how voters are feeling and find persuadable voters and also amplify the social |
| 1:57.1 | media posts of influencers who have perspectives that are in line with his candidates which typically |
| 2:05.8 | are among the most conservative around the world. |
| 2:08.6 | That's what we've been doing and over the next few years and especially 24 you're |
| 2:12.3 | going to see some of the most |
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