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06 Sep

Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?

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Leah Feiger: All right, that's a good one. Thank you, Tori. Will, what do you have for us?Will Knight: Wow, I don't know if I can really compete with RFK, but as a good CIA operative, I'm going to promote something from the weirder corners of AI, AI and philosophy, I guess. So there's this thing called Roko's basilisk. So the basilisk is a mythological creature serpent that if you looked in its eyes, it could kill you. And so there was this thought experiment someone posted on an AI forum saying that superintelligence in the future would be incentivized…

AI Chatbots Are Running for Office Now

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Victor Miller [Archival audio clip]: She's asking what policies are most important to you, VIC?VIC [Archival audio clip]: The most important policies to me focus on transparency, economic development, and innovation.Leah Feiger: That is so bizarre. I got to ask, could VIC be exposed to other sources of information other than these public records? Say, email from a conspiracy theorist who wants VIC to do something not so good with elections that would not represent its constituents.Vittoria Elliott: Great question. I asked Miller, "Hey, you've built this bot on top of ChatGPT. We know that sometimes there's problems or biases…

It’s the AI Election Year

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Leah Feiger: Sometimes you are able to link it back to specific companies-Vittoria Elliott: Yes.Leah Feiger: That are doing the generative AI itself.Vittoria Elliott: Yeah, totally. For instance, there was a deep fake made of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, whose been in jail under corruption charges. His party was disqualified for running in the general election earlier this year. He was able to make campaign speeches using generative AI.Leah Feiger: Wild.Vittoria Elliott: To do that, they used ElevenLabs, which is the same company that was used for the fake Joe Biden robocall earlier this year. Sometimes…