Rachael Dean Wilson with the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a former aide to Sen. John McCain is tracking the disinformation landscape. She believes AI has the potential to fuel election disinformation in ways voters cannot easily detect.
“I think, overall, there is the potential for it to just supercharge everything,” said Wilson. “So, we are supercharging the ability to create false audio and false video that looks real, and it’s hard to tell if it is or is not. And it can definitely, if spread with the right timing or with the right message, impact the election, impact the vote, depending on how it’s deployed.”
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