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"textContent": "Democracy’s future depends on our ability to use AI to our benefit, not to benefit its most unscrupulous human agents by its capability to use us, write guest columnists Richard M. Perloff, a distinguished Cleveland State University professor of communication and political science, and Anup Kumar, a CSU professor of communication.",
"title": "AI’s risk to political dialogue and elections: Richard M. Perloff and Anup Kumar"
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