(light tone) (dynamic music) - Welcome to "The Newsfeed".

In today's episode, we're digging into the dangers artificial intelligence might pose in the upcoming general election in November.

We preview a session from the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival that has watchers of this technology nervous about deep fakes.

Plus a pioneering African American glass artist who broke barriers, is one of 10 black arts legacies trailblazers for season three.

I'm Paris Jackson.

Today's top story, AI is a concern as we near the 2024 general election, particularly deep fakes in election interference.

The host of Radio Atlantic, Hanna Rosin, sat down with Atlantic staff writer, Charlie Warzel, for a live podcast recording in May to discuss AI's potential threats.

Take a listen.

- There hasn't been like big tech like regulation in the United States at least.

And we've been, you know, those problems are actually like a little more in your face than this stuff right now.

I think that like, the only thing that we, the only like bulwark right now against this stuff is that, I do think people are generally like, pretty dubious now of most things.

- Interesting, yeah.

- Like, I do think there is like just a general like, suspicion of stuff that happens online.

Basically, I don't know how effective these things are yet because of the human element.

- [Hanna Rosin] Yeah.

- Right?

It seems like we have a little bit more of a defense now than we did, you know, let's say in 2016, - Because we're savvier, because we're all talking to these people, because everybody knows that this is a possibility.

- Yeah.

And I think a lot of people are just like kind of beaten down by sort of, by like the, you know, the misinformation in the world and things like that where they just are less, you know, willing to pick up the robocall, right?

- Yeah.

- You know, there's things like, just like that.

And I do think that time is our greatest asset here with all of this.

The problem is, you know, it only takes one, right?

It only takes some person, you know, in late October who puts out something just good enough, or early November that it's the last thing someone sees before they go to the polls.

Right?

- [Hanna Rosin] Right.

- And it's too hard to debunk, or that person doesn't see the debunking, right?

And these elections are getting closer and closer, right?

And it's harder and harder to understand, you know, where they're swinging necessarily.

So, those are the things that make you nervous.

To watch the full broadcast segment, go to cascadepbs.org.

(light music) A Seattle glass artist who started out with Dale Chihuly and later became the first woman, and first black artist in residence at a renowned glass school in Venice as part of this year's Black Arts Legacies season three.

A pioneering black woman who carved out a niche in a predominantly white and male arts industry, is featured in the third installment of Black Arts Legacies.

Glass artist, Debora Moore, is known for her delicate, lifelike botanicals, skillful facility with color and pattern, and her glass blowing innovations.

Moore started in the late 1980s, and has sense established herself as one of the best botanical glass artists in the world, with a resume that stretches from Seattle to Italy.

Moore says all of her work is a personal interpretation of nature.

- My whole thing is to capture the essence of whatever I'm studying that I wanna make.

It doesn't have to look true to life, it doesn't have to be a scientific study.

It's just my vision of what I see.

We all have a gift of some sort.

One of my gifts is that I make things.

I look at things, I question how they're made.

- I'm Paris Jackson.

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