The AI Democracy Paradox

The 2024 election season didn't bring the Hollywood-style robot apocalypse we were warned about, but something perhaps more subtle and persistent happened instead. We have entered an era where artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how we consume information, talk to our neighbors, and interact with the government. Think of AI not as the root cause of our democratic struggles, but as a high-speed accelerant. Before AI, political misinformation had to be manufactured by people. Today, it can be generated at an industrial scale for pennies. Washington is caught in a state of regulatory whiplash, desperately trying to write laws that don't stifle the very innovation that could improve our government, all while trying to put the brakes on deepfakes and foreign interference. T

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