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Pete Buttigieg: “We seem to have less access to the truth now than we did 20…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Deans Forum - A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg: "Leadership, Innovation and the Next Generation"

Published | Video Starts at 10:27

… advent of social media has made us less social, that the information age is one where we have never had more information, and it seems we've never been less informed. We seem to have less access to the truth now than we did 20 years ago. And there's every reason to be concerned about how that will unfold. But to me, the most important questions about how AI will unfold, whether it will be better or worse, are not fundamentally technology questions. (10:27–10:33)

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