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4 ways AI can be used and abused in the 2024 election, from deepfakes to foreign interference

  • Written by Barbara A. Trish, Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College

The American public is on alert about artificial intelligence and the 2024 election.

A September 2024 poll by the Pew Research Center found that well over half of Americans worry that artificial intelligence – or AI, computer technology mimicking the processes and products of human intelligence – will be used to generate and spread...

Read more: 4 ways AI can be used and abused in the 2024 election, from deepfakes to foreign interference

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