
AI experts sound alarm on technology going into 2024 election: ‘We're not prepared for this’
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AI experts and tech savvy politicians are warning that more is needed to be done to regulation artificial intelligence ahead of the 2024 election.
"We're not prepared for this," warned A.J. Nash, vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox. "To me, the big leap forward is the audio and video capabilities that have emerged. When you can do that on a large scale, and distribute it on social platforms, well, it's going to have a major impact." Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, and much more.
Among the many capabilities of AI, here are a few that will have significance ramifications with elections and voting: automated robocall messages, in a candidate's voice, instructing voters to cast ballots on the wrong date; audio recordings of a candidate supposedly confessing to a crime or expressing racist views; video footage showing someone giving a speech or interview they never gave.
Fake images designed to look like local news reports, falsely claiming a candidate dropped out of the race.