Good morning.
The conversations at Fortune Brainstorm AI in London this week were mostly optimistic glimpses into how technology will improve our businesses, our lives and our health. Olivier Oullier, co-founder and CEO of Inclusive Brains, ended the event with a fascinating look at how a brain-computer interface will help a quadriplegic carry the Olympic torch later this year.
But the darkest moment of the two days, in my view, was a conversation that I led on the effects of AI on elections and democracy. The speakers, who had deep experience in U.S., U.K., and European politics, noted that we’ve already lived through a decade or more of deteriorating trust in the information available around elections. And generative AI carries the capacity, as one said, to supercharge that misinformation. Some excerpts:
