Your Undivided Attention How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller
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Dec 21, 2023 
Renee DiResta and Carl Miller discuss the risks AI poses to elections. They explore deep fakes, combating hate speech and misinformation, accessing data for analysis, and the need for transparency from platforms. Implementing digital morality blockouts and circuit breakers is suggested to reduce negative engagement.
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Generative AI's Impact
- Generative AI drastically lowers content creation costs, similar to how social media lowered distribution costs.
- This, combined with increased polarization and new platforms, creates a perfect storm for the 2024 elections.
Evolving Information Warfare
- Information warfare is evolving beyond disinformation; it now involves coordinated campaigns using psychology.
- Actors now combine online tactics with real-world actions like economic inducements and coercion.
Diverse Threat Actors
- The actors involved in information warfare have diversified.
- State actors, for-profit groups, campaigns, and consultants now all play a role.