2024-11-02
20 分钟Does AI pose a threat to democracy? Law professor Lawrence Lessig dissects how this emerging technology could influence democratic institutions, warning that we’ve already passed a point (before superintelligence or AGI) that deserves a lot more attention.
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In all the discussions about AI, so much focus is paid to when artificial intelligence will overwhelm human strengths, like when it's super intelligent or when humans are no longer in control of it.
But in his 2024 talk, attorney and activist Lawrence Lessig warns us that we've already crossed a point that needs a lot more attention, the point at which AI overwhelmed human weaknesses.
He explains that problem and what we should do about it after the break.
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So on January 6, 2021, my nation suffered a little bit of a democracy heart attack.
Thousands of Americans had been told that the election had been stolen and tens of thousands of them showed up because they believed the election had been stolen.
And indeed, in Polling immediately after January 6, the Washington Post found 70% of Republicans believed the election had been stolen and a majority of college educated Republicans believed the election had been stolen.
That was their perception, and I don't know what the right way to act on that perception is.
They thought the right way was to defend what they thought was a democracy stolen.