Misinformation is rife, AI makes it easier to create, and 42 percent of the planet’s inhabitants get to vote this year
A few days earlier, US senator Mark Warner , who chairs the Senate's Intelligence Committee, told Trellix CEO Bryan Palma that the United States is less prepared to combat foreign intervention in the 2024 elections than was the case in 2020.for allegedly using social media to threaten election workers in Phoenix at around the time of Arizona's primary elections in August 2022.
"With elections, the biggest threat is misinformation, disinformation, from foreign and domestic ," Crystal Morin, a cybersecurity strategist at infosec tools vendor Sysdig told"Honestly, it doesn't really matter whether it's coming from a foreign adversary or someone in the US. None of it's good. We need to try to defend against that, and differentiate true from false as best we can.
"I worry that we are less prepared for foreign intervention in our elections in 2024 than we were in 2020," Warner opined, noting a handful of reasons for his fears. And finally: AI."The kind of manipulation taking place in 2016 looks like child's play at this point," Warner declared."AI can do this at a scale and speed that's unprecedented."spoke with for this story: misinformation, coupled with AI-based threats including deepfake videos and robocalls, poses the biggest risk in 2024.
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