Artificial Intelligence Poses a Huge Threat. It’s Time to Put a Seatbelt on It | Opinion

April 17, 2023 | Tim Wirth, Richard Gephardt, Kerry Healey, and Jonathan M. Winer | Newsweek

The 2024 presidential election is rapidly approaching, and we aren’t prepared for how new artificial intelligence models will affect our elections. Fake, A.I. generated images of former President Trump resisting arrest provided another fresh example of the firehose of lies, deception and false information that AI threatens to unleash on our electoral process. The potential for AI-generated deep-fake videos, text-based chatbots, and voice-synthesis technologies to disrupt elections in 2024 is nearly limitless, especially as the code for powerful AI large language models leak to the worst parts of the internet like 4Chan. …