Political Rewind: How could AI affect the upcoming 2024 election cycle?

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File/The logo for OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, appears on a mobile phone.

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The panelist

Paul Root Wolpe, Director Center for Ethics, Emory University                       

The breakdown: 

1. How could AI be used to derail campaigns in 2024? 

• Professor Paul Root Wolpe says Artificial Intellegence could lead to the average voter. 
  • He adds devious campaigns could use deep fakes.
• Wolpe says a rise in deep fakes, may lead to extended trust in legacy news outlets. 

2. What are big concerns everyday people have about ChatGPT?

• Wolpe says he fields questions about terrorism, and scams on a daily. 
  • On Monday, a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter. It was apparently created using AI.
• He also adds that the software itself can be racially biased. 

3. How will AI affect the job market? 

• Wolpe says unlike the industrial revolution, AI can affect white collar jobs as well. 
  • Reports say ChatGPT could replace upwards of 4.8 million American jobs. 

Friday on Political Rewind: East Point Mayor Deana Holiday Ingraham joins the panel.