Plus, the use of generative AI among teens and parents, AI’s risks to women, and how to build ethical and inclusive AI systems.
| AI can strengthen US democracy—and weaken it Next year, highly consequential elections will take place in the United States and in countries around the world, together representing more than 3.5 billion people. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing how candidates conduct their campaigns and shaping how voters find information about key election issues. AI has the potential to bolster democracy by strengthening citizen engagement and participation, lowering financial barriers for first-time candidates, identifying voter fraud, and more. But at the same time, AI is being leveraged to mislead voters and drive divisions among them. In the first post of a new series, Norman Eisen, Nicol Turner Lee, Colby Galliher, and Jonathan Katz look at the risks and opportunities AI presents for democracy. |
Generative AI, parents, and teens |
On this episode of the TechTank podcast, Nicol Turner Lee, Stephen Balkam, and Kara Sundby discuss findings from a new study which examines the awareness and usage of generative AI among teens and parents in the United States, Germany, and Japan. 🎧 Listen to the podcast |
More about AI AI poses disproportionate risks to women. Recent studies have found that women are uniquely concerned about the risks of AI. Darrell M. West calls for policymakers, business leaders, and tech innovators to take these concerns seriously and implement protections.
Black women in AI. Join us in person or online for a discussion with Black women experts in AI, who will share their work and insights as well as discuss how to design and deploy more balanced, ethical, and diversely built and monitored AI systems. |
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