The 21st Show

Is our democracy prepared for artificial intelligence?

 
The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston.

The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

Fake images and audio recordings of candidates have already been circulating, even here on The 21st Show!  Find out what we should be doing to address the threat of this increasingly common technology.

GUESTS:

Andrea Guzman

Associate professor of journalism at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb

Zizi Papacharissi

Professor and department head of communication at University of Illinois Chicago - Professor of political science

Samuel Woolley

Assistant professor in the School of Journalism & Media and School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin

Project director for propaganda research at U-T's Center for Media Engagement

A version of this conversation originally aired on Feb. 12, 2024.