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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time”


Here's what happened after Kennedy's campaign invited an antisemitic conspiracist to host an AI panel.

Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign hosted an online panel Wednesday on the future of AI moderated, for some reason, by Ian Carroll, a self-styled journalist with a history of antisemitic statements. While Carroll has no particular public profile on AI, his persona tracks with the campaign’s focus on tech figures and influencers as it courts a young, male, and extremely online audience. Unsurprisingly, Kennedy mused about the technology’s potential for his core issue, saying that he “looks forward to using AI to do real studies on vaccines,” speculating that the algorithms, given access to databases “that CDC has kept closed” would produce valuable insights.

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