Artificial intelligence could be weaponized on voters, feds warn. Protecting the vote: State election officials lose sleep over AI ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports on Arizona election officials concerned about how artificial intelligence might be used to spread misinformation with less than three weeks to the election. PHOENIX — In the final weeks of a divisive, high-stakes campaign season, state election officials in political battleground states say they are bracing for the unpredictable and emergent threat posed by artificial intelligence, or AI. “The number one concern we have on Election Day are some of the challenges that we have yet to face,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. “There are some uncertainties, particularly with generative artificial intelligence and the ways that those might be used.” Fontes, a Democrat, said his office is aware that some campaigns are already using AI as a tool in his hotly contested state and that election administrators urgently need to familiarize themselves with what is real and what is not.
via abcnews: AI deepfakes a top concern for election officials with voting underway
siehe auch: 4 ways AI can be used and abused in the 2024 election, from deepfakes to foreign interference. The American public is on alert about artificial intelligence and the 2024 election. A September 2024 poll by the Pew Research Center found that well over half of Americans worry that artificial intelligence – or AI, computer technology mimicking the processes and products of human intelligence – will be used to generate and spread false and misleading information in the campaign. My academic research on AI may help quell some concerns. While this innovative technology certainly has the potential to manipulate voters or spread lies at scale, most uses of AI in the current election cycle are, so far, not novel at all. I’ve identified four roles AI is playing or could play in the 2024 campaign – all arguably updated versions of familiar election activities.