By Richard Cowan and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after tech CEOs met with lawmakers about how to regulate artificial intelligence, ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSWASHINGTON - A day after tech CEOs met with lawmakers about how to regulate artificial intelligence, two key senators said Congress may first need to tackle the potential impact of AI on elections.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters a day after the AI forum that included technology leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai that election AI legislation may need to move faster. The appearance in the campaign of digitally alerted photos in June of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump showed how the technology is turbocharging its way into the 2024 presidential race as a slew of new"generative AI" tools make it cheap and easy to create convincing deepfakes.
Experts say the proliferation of AI tools could make it far easier to, for instance, conduct mass hacking campaigns or create fake profiles on social media to spread false information and propaganda.
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