Concerns About Artificial Intelligence And Elections

There are growing concerns that advances in artificial intelligence will interfere with the November presidential election. Texas state lawmakers were told at a hearing this week that deep fake technology is blurring the line between what is real and what is false on social media. Nathaniel Persily with the Stanford Cyber Policy Center says that only a tiny percentage of what you see on Facebook is political. The problem is that they are mixing it in with legitimate news. So, users don’t trust anything. He says it’s clear that our foreign adversaries are pushing much of this to undermine public trust in elections.