Will AI save or ruin democracy?

Will AI save or ruin democracy? 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT Samara Centre for Democracy 33 Prince Arthur Ave Toronto, ON M5R 1A9 A live Q & A between Dr. Fenwick McKelvey and Monika Warzecha, digital editor at The Walrus, discussing his new book with open access with MIT Press, SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers.The public discussion connects the book to today's debates around AI, bots, and the future of democracy.In SimPolitics, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s to explore how computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem. Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Democratic Communication Daniel Kreiss says "With rich detail, Fenwick McKelvey's brilliant SimPolitics urgently reminds us that we should spend less time worrying about perfecting simulations and more time thinking about their politics." Organized by the PolicyDreams Research Lab and Gallery at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information and hosted by the Samara Centre for Democracy.