By THE HILL
Published on February 9, 2024
The world’s AI and data infrastructure is about to get the mother of all stress tests — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. We’re in a massive election year, which means this year will also bring countless efforts to use AI tools for political ends — to educate and empower voters, yes, but also to warp political discourse, damage democracies, and skew election results.
We’re already seeing the warning signs. In New Hampshire, primary voters received AI-generated calls in which President Joe Biden told them to stay home on primary day. A super PAC was found to be using AI to create a deepfake version of Democratic challenger Dean Phillips. Elsewhere in the world, politicians from London to Lahore are now the subject of deepfaked audio and video, and experts say the concept of truth itself is now being destabilized by ubiquitous GenAI technologies.