Study Warns Highly Realistic AI-Generated Deepfakes Could Enhance ‘Electoral Interference’

Published on May 29, 2024

Highly realistic AI-generated deepfakes containing false allegations about political candidates could enhance “electoral interference,” according to a study. Research by The Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) on Wednesday urged Ofcom and the Electoral Commission to address the use of AI in upcoming elections. A number of politicians, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have been the subjects of misleading AI content. AI-Generated Voice Clones CETaS, which conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging technology and national security policy, said that with the general election on July 4, there “is a very limited time to make significant changes to election security protections or electoral law.”...

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