Great as always. But a someone who works in marketing tech, I'm extremely skeptical of chart #2. Things like click-through rates are fairly meaningless metrics to begin with, and there is no way the impact of AI on these metrics could be calculated in a remotely accurate way.
Good Lord, imagine the potential havoc AI can play with elections. A lot depends on who is handling the programming. Some people may think that we should just let AI pick our office holders - or, yikes, let AI run the government without humans. AI can make a socialist state particularly ruthless. Can you imagine a hospital board asking AI who they should save, and who they should let die from a cost/benefit perspective? Amoral machines need to be regulated to allow them to do some things efficiently, but stay out of decision-making processes that require moral decision-making. Sometimes the most efficient decision is not the best one.
This is fascinating! The potential of AI in elections is both exciting and terrifying. Super-gerrymandering, for example, could take things to a whole new level, and it makes you wonder if we'll even recognize the concept of “fair” districts anymore. The idea of AI empowering challengers is intriguing, though. It could actually create more competition and force incumbents to work harder, which could be good for democracy. But then again, if only a few model-makers hold all the power, how do we ensure that AI doesn't further consolidate influence in the hands of the few? Do you think there’s a way to regulate AI in politics effectively, or are we just setting ourselves up for a new kind of political arms race?
Gerrymandering has been used to make sure Blacks’ votes don’t count and that has been made illegal. It has been used to create districts that favor one party. That is legal, as long as race is not the motivation (or effect?). Trump’s new census and new gerrymandering is intended to create more districts that favor republicans. That should make “safe” republican districts less “safe.” That could mean a democrat with a good narrative (if that ever happens again) could defeat a less attractive republican. Another case of Trump enhancing democracy.
AI is hard to understand. I also don’t understand why dems don’t use it to craft their messaging. Clumsy AI could easily do better than they are.
Great as always. But a someone who works in marketing tech, I'm extremely skeptical of chart #2. Things like click-through rates are fairly meaningless metrics to begin with, and there is no way the impact of AI on these metrics could be calculated in a remotely accurate way.
Good Lord, imagine the potential havoc AI can play with elections. A lot depends on who is handling the programming. Some people may think that we should just let AI pick our office holders - or, yikes, let AI run the government without humans. AI can make a socialist state particularly ruthless. Can you imagine a hospital board asking AI who they should save, and who they should let die from a cost/benefit perspective? Amoral machines need to be regulated to allow them to do some things efficiently, but stay out of decision-making processes that require moral decision-making. Sometimes the most efficient decision is not the best one.
This is fascinating! The potential of AI in elections is both exciting and terrifying. Super-gerrymandering, for example, could take things to a whole new level, and it makes you wonder if we'll even recognize the concept of “fair” districts anymore. The idea of AI empowering challengers is intriguing, though. It could actually create more competition and force incumbents to work harder, which could be good for democracy. But then again, if only a few model-makers hold all the power, how do we ensure that AI doesn't further consolidate influence in the hands of the few? Do you think there’s a way to regulate AI in politics effectively, or are we just setting ourselves up for a new kind of political arms race?
Gerrymandering has been used to make sure Blacks’ votes don’t count and that has been made illegal. It has been used to create districts that favor one party. That is legal, as long as race is not the motivation (or effect?). Trump’s new census and new gerrymandering is intended to create more districts that favor republicans. That should make “safe” republican districts less “safe.” That could mean a democrat with a good narrative (if that ever happens again) could defeat a less attractive republican. Another case of Trump enhancing democracy.
AI is hard to understand. I also don’t understand why dems don’t use it to craft their messaging. Clumsy AI could easily do better than they are.