I wouldn't consider myself fully conversant in artificial intelligence, but I know it's a debate that's coming to legislators. Truck driving is often brought up as the example that's most immediate, but I think it's going to change everything. It's coming to politics, and we haven't thought about it as carefully as we should.
It's already playing out. You have artificial intelligence or machine learning using existing data to select people, through social media or other platforms, to target and test messages. This involves not one or two different messages, but hundreds, sometimes thousands to perfect that targeting. We don't always have a sense of the information in these messages, or a sense of whether the people being selected know why they're being singled out. If you think about the public square or the public discussion, it's very easy for some voices to get extremely amplified, thanks to the artificial intelligence being used to create bots and other things that are seeking out certain points of view and ampliyfing them, or other people's points of view are not heard at all.
The bottom line is that this is distorting the public square. We're saying that debates are trying to equalize access for the voter, but in the midst of it, a lot of other pieces are going around that we would be remiss not to consider in thinking about the information environment.