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One of the biggest fears around this year’s U.S. presidential contest was how widespread and impactful political misinformation would be—particularly with artificial intelligence and its ability to generate realistic images, audio, and video on demand. So far, the impact has been muted; the handful of AI-generated videos that have gained traction have been quickly debunked (and mostly attributed to Russia) by U.S. intelligence and security agencies, and much of the AI content on social media has been what author and tech journalist Brian Merchant described in a post on X as “the worst and corniest propaganda you’ve ever seen.”
At the start of 2024, however, ahead of the dozens of national elections around the world that took place before Americans went to the polls, the impact of AI was a far more open and troubling question. In an article for our Winter 2024 issue, I dug into the implications of AI on election misinformation—including the causes for concern and the case for calm.
Read it here: What AI Will Do to Elections
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