Artificial Intelligence in Politics

Unpublished Cafe

English - February 19, 2021 21:30 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB
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PUBLISHED: 19/02/2021

Artificial intelligence. The emergence of the technology which allows machines to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence.

What could go wrong?

Many of us were twigged to the notion of artificial intelligence with the investigation into Cambridge Analytica and it’s impact on the election. While artificial intelligence will soon give us self driving vehicles, there is a growing skepticism of applying it in the political realm or public policy making. Politicians consistently rank near the bottom of the list when it comes to being respected. What if A.I could improve on that?

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GUESTS:

Bruce Scheier - Fellow and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School - https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/bruce-schneier

Darrell West - Vice President and Director of Governance Studies &

Senior Fellow at Center for Technology Innovation Brookings Institute - https://www.brookings.edu/experts/darrell-m-west/

Emma Briant - Visiting Research Associate in Human Rights at Bard College -https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=4493

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REFERENCES:

https://techlaw.uottawa.ca/bankillerai

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimnilsson/2019/05/14/can-ai-clean-up-politics/?sh=1c49c33575bc

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/a-surprising-number-of-people-trust-ai-to-make-better-policy-decisions-than-politicians

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/future-politics-bots-drowning-out-humans/604489/