Michelle Ainsworth explores how the hype around Generative AI and the 2024 year of elections panned out, and why technology guardrails are urgently needed to protect democracy.

She’ll talk to experts in Generative AI and digital forensics. She also interviews former US government advisors, Australian election experts and disinformation specialists.

This episode includes interviews with:

Tom Rogers, former Australian Electoral Commissioner

Professor Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute

Sam Stockwell, Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technology and Security

Professor Hany Farid, School of Information, UC Berkeley

Dean Jackson, Democracy, Media and Technology Specialist

Michael Daniel, President Cyber Threat Alliance

Nina Jankowicz, founder American Sunlight Project and author of “How to lose the information war”

Publications cited:

UK Election Analysis - AI Election

AI-Enabled Influence Operations: Threat Analysis of the 2024 UK and European Elections - CETaS

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