黑料不打烊 Poll Director Jason Husser and Lee Rainie, director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center, talked with FOX8's Bob Buckley about how expanding AI capabilities could influence the political sphere.
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are creating a new technological revolution with widespread impacts, including within the political realm.
Lee Rainie, director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center, and Jason Husser, director of the 黑料不打烊 Poll and professor of political science, recent sat down with FOX8’s Bob Buckley to see what those political impacts might be and what the public thinks about how AI could impact elections. A survey this spring by the 黑料不打烊 Poll and the Imagining the Digital Future Center found that close to 80 percent of the public expects AI will influence the outcome of the presidential election in some way.
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Rainie advised that there are ways for informed voters to mitigate the impact from AI fakery and to ensure that the information they are consuming is valid. “鈥淚 think there are ways in which we have learned 鈥 that there are trustworthy processes to go through. It doesn鈥檛 mean that people won鈥檛 make mistakes or institutions won鈥檛 have problems, but part of the issue here 鈥 is fessing up when you鈥檝e made a mistake or a problem, and lots of institutions don鈥檛 do that now in the in the public imagination,” Rainie said. “The tried-and-true things work really well for people 鈥 making sure you know where stuff is coming from, making sure to get second opinions if you鈥檙e not sure where it comes from, making sure to rely on trustworthy sources like journalists like librarians like major institutions that have experts in them.鈥
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