Security News > 2023 > October > Political Disinformation and AI

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence.

Countries trying to influence each other's elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election.

Election season will soon be in full swing in much of the democratic world.

Every US national election from 2016 has brought with it an additional country attempting to influence the outcome.

The military officers in Russia, China, and elsewhere in charge of election interference are likely to have their best people thinking of others.

There have been some important democratic elections in the generative AI era with no significant disinformation issues: primaries in Argentina, first-round elections in Ecuador, and national elections in Thailand, Turkey, Spain, and Greece.

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