National intelligence director warns of AI-enabled election threats

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is on guard for ways foreign adversaries may use artificial intelligence to sway the American public in advance of elections in November.

A brief unclassified report the agency released July 9 describes how the technology has been deployed in other elections around the world.

“The IC has observed examples in foreign elections of Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used to more quickly and convincingly tailor synthetic content, including audio and video,” ...