How 2024 Battleground States Are Making ready for AI Election Threats

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — With the 2024 U.S. election season already essentially the most unstable in current historical past, election officers throughout the nation are scrambling to arrange for a brand new menace that has shortly change into a prime concern: a possible tidal wave of synthetic intelligence–fueled lies designed to confuse and agitate offended, scared and paranoid American voters.

AI has superior quickly in recent times, as ChatGPT and providers that generate pretend photos, audio, and video continuously enhance their capabilities. These advances have jolted the election neighborhood, which was already reeling from a rise in mis- and disinformation, conspiracy theories, and demise threats largely tied to a surge in right-wing extremism in 2020.

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