Historian Jill Lepore on the “artificial state”

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Oct 5, 202600:24:37News & Politics

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore talks about her latest book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” how technology like AI is having a knock on effect on our democracy and why it's not too late to stop...

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