Could AI tilt the outcome of elections?
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THE GLOBAL wave of elections in 2024 was heralded as the first of the artificial-intelligence (AI) era. But opinions about what that meant varied. Would AI prompt a glut of malign deepfakes and large language model-generated spam? Or empower politicians to speak to constituencies segregated by language, and voters to find new sources of information to guide their choice?
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