Dean Preston launches effort to combat AI misinformation in local elections
In January, New Hampshire voters received robocalls in which President Joe Biden seemed to urge them not to participate in the state’s primary election.
“There seems to be a consensus that this is an area where there’s significant risk, and we need to get ahead of those risks and protect the integrity of our elections,” said Supervisor Dean Preston, who said he suspects that he has been the target of AI-generated misinformation. While The City appears to have made it through the March primary without any widespread disinformation campaigns, many view AI interference as an inevitability.
Mayor London Breed — who last year proposed controversial cuts to the Commission’s budget that the Board of Supervisors later reversed — did not respond to a request for comment. Despite the flurry of activity in Sacramento, Preston fears that reform will not come soon enough to affect the 2024 election cycle.
“It would make more sense if the state and the federal government were ahead of the curve here and all the conduct we’re talking about was already illegal and/or required to be fully disclosed,” Preston said. “But that’s not the situation, so that’s why we’re looking at what are areas where The City might have to intervene as well.
“What used to require a heavy lift — even for really sophisticated, well-funded bad actors — is now close to costless,” said Lawson.
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