AI and the 2024 Elections: R Street on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

On June 23, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured research from R Street’s Governance program regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 elections. Watch the segment below.

Transcript:

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I will say at least when it came to last year’s elections, many experts agree that AI’s negative impacts were far less extreme than originally feared.

And it is good that large groups of people weren’t fooled into thinking that Kamala Harris wore a communist uniform, or that Trump was violently arrested, or that Biden put on a Trump hat–but wait, that last one was actually real. He really did that, two months before election day. How on earth did Democrats lose?

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