Dave Blundin

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32,058 appearances 101 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard yesterday

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. voice-verified
Inspection is job one. voice-verified
Once you have inspection, then you have data. voice-verified
Then you have more time to debate what to do with the data, but at least you've got it. voice-verified
Uh Dave. voice-verified
Yeah, it's not just America. voice-verified
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. voice-verified
And that is the one fundamental dysfunction of democracy that makes us vulnerable. voice-verified
But uh you know, social media, like Alex was alluding to earlier, it it actually I think Selim, you were voice-verified
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. voice-verified
But I don't think you can just roll with it. voice-verified
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. voice-verified
So what you end up seeing on the home page of your phone is what was trending. voice-verified
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. voice-verified
It is such a vulnerability. voice-verified
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. voice-verified
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. voice-verified
Oh my god, what this is everybody else is a lawyer too. voice-verified
Oh my god. voice-verified
Everybody else is a lawyer. voice-verified
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