Will Generative AI Reshape Elections?
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a great deal over the last year about generative AI and how it’s going to reshape various aspects of our society. That includes elections. With one year until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we thought it would be a good time to step back and take a look at how generative AI might and might not make a difference when it comes to the political landscape. Luckily, Matt Perault and Scott Babwah Brennen of the UNC Center on Technology Policy have a new report out on just that subject, examining generative AI and political ads.
On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the information ecosystem, Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic and Lawfare’s Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri sat down with Matt and Scott to talk through the potential risks and benefits of generative AI when it comes to political advertising. Which concerns are overstated, and which are worth closer attention as we move toward 2024? How should policymakers respond to new uses of this technology in the context of elections?
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| 1:04.8 | There's less, there's fewer ads, there's less content of any sort, which is why a single piece of deceptive |
| 1:11.4 | content might be more potentially effective. |
| 1:14.4 | So the recommendation is, you know, state local governments should flood the zone, right, with good factual |
| 1:19.3 | content to help kind of potentially drown out or dilute, you know, efforts by bad actors to introduce deceptive content. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm Quinta Jaresik, a senior editor at Law Fair. |
| 1:33.2 | And this is the Law Fair Podcast, November 29th, 2023. |
| 1:39.5 | Today we're bringing you an episode of Arbiters of Truth, |
| 1:42.3 | our series on the information ecosystem. |
| 1:45.4 | Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard a great deal over the last year |
| 1:49.2 | about generative AI and how it's going to reshape various aspects of our society. |
| 1:55.1 | That includes elections. |
| 1:57.4 | With one year until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we thought it would be a good time |
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