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Can US Congress control the abuse of AI in the 2024 election?

Can US Congress control the abuse of AI in the 2024 election?

Politics Weekly America vor 2 Jahren

This week, Jonathan Freedland and Rachel Leingang discuss why people are so worried about the influence of artificial intelligence on November’s presidential election, and what politicians can do to catch up

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In January, voters in New Hampshire answered a phone call from what
sounded like President Joe Biden. What turned out to be an
AI-generated robocall caused a stir because it was trying to
convince Democratic voters not to turn up to polling stations on
election day. In response to this scam, just a couple of weeks
later, the US government outlawed robocalls that use voices
generated by artificial intelligence. But experts are warning that
this story is just one example of why 2024 will be a year of
unprecedented election disinformation in the US and around the
world. This week, Jonathan Freedland and Rachel Leingang discuss
why people are so worried about the influence of artificial
intelligence on November’s presidential election, and what
politicians can do to catch up