AI-Powered Disinformation Threatens 2024 Election Integrity, Spurring Calls for Policy and Industry Action
• AI-powered disinformation poses massive risk to 2024 elections with over half the world heading to polls
• Generative AI can now easily create believable, fake audio/video content to manipulate elections
• This could fuel widespread AI backlash, putting brakes on responsible AI diffusion needed to realize benefits
• Industry must redirect focus from sci-fi problems to immediate issues like elections to build public trust
• Policymakers should incentivize trust-building tech innovation and compile 2024 election content data to understand and solve problem by 2026