Advances in AI make it faster, easier, and relatively inexpensive to create messaging that can be difficult to distinguish between fake and real. These new AI tools create fertile ground to create election claims and counterclaims that may be false. In this live, virtual conversation, technology policy expert, Joycelyn Tate, SAIS '05, shared how AI-generated political messaging will transform America's system of elections and have a profound impact on how voters see the candidates and their campaigns during the 2024 election cycle.

Joycelyn Tate, SAIS '05 (Cert), is a leading expert on digital equity with a record of developing digital equity advocacy strategies to advance racial and gender equity, civil rights, and social justice in the use of, access to, and ownership of technology. As the founder and CEO of TS Strategies, Joycelyn advises senior executives of organizations on digital equity policy issues and executes public policy advocacy strategies to advance digital equity. She is also the co-founder of Make Innovative Technology for Change (MakeIT4Change) Innovation Hub, a nonprofit organization that empowers youth and adults to create technology for social change.

Joycelyn was joined in conversation by moderator Scott Shane, a former fellow of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and veteran reporter of 40 years. During his 15-year tenure at The New York Times, he covered national security and shared two Pulitzer Prizes with colleagues. He is the author of three books, most recently FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland, about the underground railroad and the domestic slave trade in Washington and Baltimore. To learn more about FLEE NORTH, visit https://www.scottshane.org/

We encourage those who are interested in this important topic to register for Joycelyn Tate's online three-session Odyssey course, "Hacking Democracy: How Artificial Intelligence and Deep Fakes Target and Influence Voters," beginning Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
https://events.jhu.edu/form/odysseytatespring24

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