AI, Elections, and Policy in Asia-Pacific

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is spreading to all corners of the world, but its impact varies wildly between the contexts in which it's developed and deployed. If considerations are not made for how AI might interact with national and regional ethics and regulation, it risks exacerbating harmful externalities for already marginalized groups, democratic institutions, and the environment. In this episode, Juliane Müller, Associate Programme Officer at International IDEA's Digitalization and Democracy Programme is joined by Alia Yofira to discuss these implications and how AI literacy and institutional capacities are crucial to adequately address them. Alia Yofira is an associate researcher at the Jakarta-based Safer Internet Lab (SAIL), a gender, human rights and tech researcher at PurpleCode Collective, and the resident expert on AI regulation and legislation in the Asia Pacific region for International IDEA's AI for Electoral Actors project. She specializes in feminist and human rights-based approaches to policy advocacy in the tech sector. This episode is the second in a series for the AI for Electoral Actors project that aims to raise AI literacy among EMBs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Read more about the project:

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AI, Elections, and Policy in Asia-Pacific is an episode from Democracy IDEAs by The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

This episode is 58:23 long.

This episode was published on Sep 25, 2025.

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