American politics hardly needed something new to rattle it. But the advent of artificial intelligence promises – or threatens – to do just that, in an already tumultuous election year. Cory Alpert is a founding partner of South and West, an American political consulting firm, and is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Melbourne, researching the implications of artificial intelligence for democracy. He talks to Steve Paikin about AI in U.S. politics today, and into the future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.