What does a functioning democracy look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Could AI even be used to help a democracy flourish? Just in time for election season, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang returns to the podcast to discuss healthy information ecosystems, resilience to cyberattacks, how to “prebunk” deepfakes, and more. 


RECOMMENDED MEDIA 


Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...)


This academic paper addresses tough questions for Americans: Who governs? Who really rules? 


Recursive Public (https://www.recursivepublic.com/)


Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international AI community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance


A Strong Democracy is a Digital Democracy (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/op...)


Audrey Tang’s 2019 op-ed for The New York Times


The Frontiers of Digital Democracy (https://www.noemamag.com/the-frontier...)


Nathan Gardels interviews Audrey Tang in Noema


RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES 


Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/23...)


The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth (https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/th...)


How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller (https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/ho...)


The AI Dilemma (https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/th...)


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