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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang

‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election?

A collage showing Joe Biden, a voting booth, and a woman on a phone with a message superimposed: 'Hello, this is a message from your president'

The AI election is here.

Already this year, a robocall generated using artificial intelligence targeted New Hampshire voters in the January primary, purporting to be President Joe Biden and telling them to stay home in what officials said could be the first attempt at using AI to interfere with a US election. The “deepfake” calls were linked to two Texas companies, Life Corporation and Lingo Telecom.

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