Kelly Born on All the Ways AI Is Changing Politics

It's being adopted quickly and then it's a technology that's being adopted on top of a society that is just, as you know, really unstable. Uh, just a lot of uh, you know, challenges around trust in institutions, polarization, economic inequality that's pretty, you know, significant. And so introducing a technology this quickly that's general purpose, I think, is is cause for concern. And now the good fight. with Yasha Monk.

As you know, I have been getting really interested in the topic of artificial intelligence, which, like it or not, is going to have huge impacts on the world. Now, in some of the past episodes, we've looked at just how AI systems actually work. We've had Jeffrey Hinton and David Bau talk us through how to understand the technology behind artificial intelligence. We have talked about some of the really high-stakes implications of AI. Nick Soris told us about why he's really worried about the existential risk from AI.

But we haven't really had a broad conversation about the different kind of ways in which artificial intelligence is likely to transform the political world and how it is that we should think about governing AI, what kind of public policy response we should mount to this important new all-purpose technology. Well, a little while ago I was at a conference where somebody I had known for a while gave a presentation about those topics that I found to be really helpful in making me think through just the different kind of buckets of impact that AI is likely to have, from straightforward stuff like the administration of elections to much bigger things, like the way it'll transform our basic socioeconomic context or might change warfare in the 21st century. And so I decided to invite Kelly Bowen on to have a conversation about all of these things together on the podcast.

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