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American Democracy is an Easy Target

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Aid Democracy – with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders

April 21, 2023 Slate with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders
There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux relationships with machine personalities that don’t really exist. These risks ...
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America’s Misuse of Its Financial Infrastructure – with Abraham Newman

April 15, 2019 The National Interest with Abraham Newman
THREE DECADES ago, a German history professor listed 210 proposed explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire. The remarkable array included such fanciful causes as Bolshevism, public baths, hedonism, the pressure of terrorism and, most famously, lead poisoning. The last explanation has been discredited. It is highly unlikely that lead water pipes caused the ...
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