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Podcast: Can generative AI move politics from ‘shout with scale’ to ‘communications with scale’?

Podcast: Can generative AI move politics from ‘shout with scale’ to ‘communications with scale’?

Both political parties and candidates are already using artificial intelligence. Where is the technology at this stage, how is it being used and how might generative AI impact elections and politics?

Anthony Sowah and Jeff Berkowitz join this episode to answer these questions and help us go beyond the hype cycle to understand what AI is and what it might become.


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Why the American media and their critics won’t stop telling the same lie

The American media has a bootleggers-and-Baptists problem.

Bootleggers and Baptists” is one of the most useful concepts in understanding how economic regulation works in the real world. Coined by economist Bruce Yandle, the term describes how groups that are ostensibly opposed to each other have a shared interest in maintaining the status quo. Baptists favored prohibition, and so did bootleggers who profited by selling illegal alcohol. And politicians benefited by playing both sides.

There’s an analogous dynamic with the press today.

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