The promise of any technology is that it makes work easier. Levers make lifting easier, calculators make math easier, and artificial intelligence makes creating realistic audio and videos easier. And easier means cheaper.
That worries election law experts, since AI makes lying so cheap and easy that just about anyone can do it. There’s little in existing law to prevent AI-powered bad actors, including meddling foreign powers, from unleashing a torrent of campaign disinformation on an already saturated political landscape, they warn.
“AI is to some extent just exacerbating problems that existed already,” said Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program.
