# Can AI Kill Democracy?

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Sep 11, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/es/can-ai-kill-democracy*

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**📸 Daily Market Snapshot: **Last night, two financial indicators took sharp [simultaneous](https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1833687480656109874?s=46) dives during a particularly tough moment for Donald Trump in the presidential debate. Those indicators were the price of BTC and Trump's Polymarket odds of winning the race. The snapshot encapsulates the current lock-step fortunes of crypto prices and Trump's re-election. With Harris and Trump in a dead heat across swing states, we can likely expect more volatility in the coming weeks.

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Will AI Kill Democracy?
  
 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2024/09/image---2024-09-11T183704.571.png)](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hzxhuxZifJZSr1Zst7khA?si=BAexaT66RIOob9BjDvOG1w)**Can democracy survive artificial intelligence?**

Today, on a special in-person recording of Bankless, we welcome best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval is best known for his book *Sapiens*, and today, he is introducing ideas from his next book *Nexus*. 

Our conversation explores the question: if human beings are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?

*Hear all of the analysis*!* *👇

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