On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: tried and Turing tested.

Coming into the 2024 election cycle, generative AI was one of the main concerns for democracy watchdogs; its power to create deceptive text, images and sounds at a rapid, unfettered pace seems ripe to spread misinformation. But of all the controversies and current events that have shaped the election thus far… AI, somehow, might not be one of them.

Writer and social strategist Rachel Greenspan joins us to share what she’s hearing about the AI revolution that wasn’t.


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Podcast production by Maura Currie.

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