AI's Growing Hand in Modern Elections
Imagine a world where you can’t trust the videos you see of political candidates or the news articles shared on your social media feed. Could this be the future we will face as our electoral systems are increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence? Rishi Sunak’s recent decision to call a General Election this July has sparked many exciting discussions across various sectors, including tech. One topic generating significant interest is the paper from the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS), a research centre based at The Alan Turing Institute titled “AI- Enabled Influence Operations: The Threat to the UK General Election”. In this blog I will outline some of the key findings of the report and explore AI’s growing hand in modern elections. Note - the paper is well worth a read in full and can be found here: https://cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications/ai-enabled-influence-operations-threat-uk-general-election The Paper This is a project that was started wel...