From "Swifties for Trump" to a German foreign minister's flying penguin: the use of artificial intelligence has arrived in politics. Artificial intelligence is being deployed above all in the American election campaign. The content ranges from mockery to disinformation.
In an interactive conversation, Franca Lindner and Lisa Meinecke address the influence of political AI use on the democratic system of the USA. The two historians of America draw historical comparisons, show continuities back to the 1970s, and pose the question: how should one deal with this? As an introduction to the conversation, the short film Death of a Fantastic Machine will be shown.
Franca Lindner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Cultural History and Transatlantic Studies at the University of Munich (LMU), and has specialized in New Diplomatic History as well as the transatlantic relations with Africa.
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