Beth Simone Noveck

Coming to you from Wurundjeri land, my name is Lydia Khalil, and I'm the program director for the Transnational Challenges Program at the Loewy Institute and your host for this episode.

My guest today is Professor Beth Noveck.

Professor Novak has spent three decades at the intersection of technology and governance.

She has served as the first Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the Obama White House, advised 10 Downing Street, and Angela Merkel's Digital Council, and was New Jersey's first chief AI strategist, among many other illustrious positions.

Why?"

Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University and author of Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy.

She says used right, it could help people get more engaged with public issues.

In 1858, people might have had to attend the famed Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Here's another example.

Um, it's my friend Beth Simone Noveck, uh, who I knew when she was at Rutgers.

She's now at Northeastern University.

She wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, it's down toward the bottom of, of the rundown, about how AI can be good for democracy.