Poll shows most US adults think AI will add to election misinformation in 2024
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Euronews (English)
Euronews (English)
The warnings have grown louder and more urgent as 2024 approaches: The rapid advance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools threatens to amplify misinformation in next year’s presidential election at a scale never seen before. Most adults in the US feel the same way, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. The poll found that nearly 6 in 10 adults (58 per cent) think AI tools — which can micro-target political audiences, mass produce persuasive messages, and generate realistic fake im…