Dave Blundin
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32,058 appearances
101 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
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Dave Blundin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Having just the ability to it's the same as nuclear weapons ex inspections.
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Inspection is job one.
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Once you have inspection, then you have data.
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Then you have more time to debate what to do with the data, but at least you've got it.
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Uh Dave.
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Yeah, it's not just America.
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It's any democracy that has fair elections is is incredibly vulnerable to it's it's one of the great worries in the world right now is that that autocracies have this advantage that they can control the media and they they don't have to get reelected.
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And that is the one fundamental dysfunction of democracy that makes us vulnerable.
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But uh you know, social media, like Alex was alluding to earlier, it it actually I think Selim, you were
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It tipped the balance of the way elections work and we're sort of like, Well, oh, you know, we'll we'll just roll with it.
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But I don't think you can just roll with it.
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You know, in the age of AI with all the deepfakes, uh with you know, foreign uh promotions, everything on X is, you know, the the trending item gets pushed to your phone.
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So what you end up seeing on the home page of your phone is what was trending.
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But if that can be pushed through bots and foreign agents, then they control effectively the subset of the truth that you see is their chosen subset.
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It is such a vulnerability.
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Also, you know, Steve Jervison analyzing it shows you how easy it is to detect and fix this, but for some reason we don't.
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Yeah, we had uh we had Joe Kennedy in the office a little while back, um and he he he has a Stanford engineering degree and he said, you know, out of four hundred and forty odd people in Congress, there are four of us that have engineering degrees.
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Oh my god, what this is everybody else is a lawyer too.
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Oh my god.
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Everybody else is a lawyer.
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