Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness
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I’m your guest host, Ginny Badanes, and I lead Microsoft’s Democracy Forward program, where we’ve spent the past year deeply engaged in supporting democratic elections around the world, including the recent US elections. We have been working on everything from raising awareness of nation-state propaganda efforts to helping campaigns and election officials prepare for deepfakes to protecting political campaigns from cyberattacks. Today, I’m joined by two researchers who have also been diving deep into the impact of generative AI on democracy.
Microsoft senior researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness are studying generative AI’s influence in the political sphere with the goal of making AI systems more robust against misuse while supporting the development of AI tools that can strengthen democratic processes and systems. They spent time