Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been dominating the headlines of late, with
countless efforts by state lawmakers to regulate it or rein it in, and Governor
Newsom convening a first-of-its-kind summit meeting in conjunction with
Stanford and UC Berkeley to chart California’s way forward with this
groundbreaking and rapidly expanding technology.

San Francisco has become the hub for AI innovation and that sector is driving economic growth in the Bay Area right now. But as the use of AI proliferates, how can you tell what’s real and what’s fake? How do you know I wrote this introduction, and not some Chat Bot? How do you even know I’m not a robot? If I were, my grocery bill would be much lower. And in an age already plagued by misinformation, how can voters discern between what’s legit and what isn’t?

For more, KCBS Radio's Doug Sovern was joined by Mekela Panditharatne, an attorney who is Counsel at the Elections and Government Program for the Brennan Center for Justice, the nonpartisan law and policy institute based in New York and Washington DC.