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'Electoral Frontiers': Political Engagement in the Digital Age

Event Date:

October 24, 2024 | 3:00 PM UTC TO 4:00 PM UTC
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English

WhatsApp has become a battlefield for contemporary Indian elections.

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Part of the Electoral Frontiers webinar series, which includes "Combating Disenfranchisement and Building Transparency" and "Democracy's Challenge to Rising Authoritarianism."

Curatorial social media algorithms, large language models, facial recognition, and deepfakes have emerged as powerful forces with far-reaching, and often unforeseen, implications on democratic processes and civil liberties. Pulitzer Center 2023 AI Accountability Fellows Srishti Jaswal and Niamh McIntyre will join Hafiz Malik and Margaret Talev to discuss examples of these technologies’ electoral influence. The conversation will be moderated by AI Accountability Fellow Jennifer Strong

How are facial recognition tools being used to suppress dissent and detain activists? How has the proliferation of deepfakes—uncanny audio and visual reproductions of public figures that depict them in scenes that never occurred—impacted elections? How does propaganda travel in a politically polarized country like India, where high digital penetration and low digital literacy can lead to deadly consequences? 

Panelists will discuss these questions and explore the need for ethical and regulatory frameworks at the rapidly evolving intersection of developing technologies, politics, and society. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A. Registration is required. 

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The discussion will be moderated by 2023 AI Accountability Fellow Jennifer Strong, an audio journalist covering the impact of AI on the way we live and work. 

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