Machine learning meets the campaign trail

06/11/2025 50 min

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Episode Synopsis


AI political videos are already here — as Pittsford residents saw over the last month. An anti-Democrats ad featured AI "actors” warning against losing the character of Pittsford if Democrats won the election. So why not use real people? And how common will AI “actors” be in the future? What should be done about it?
Jeffrey Allan, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Responsible Technology at Nazareth University 
Timothy Kneeland, Ph.D., professor and director of history, politics, and law at Nazareth University
Kevin Spencer Beckford, managing partner of Finding Your Cup, LLC; operations executive; speaker; business turnaround strategist; and AI humanist
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