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AI and the 2024 US Elections
- AI has undermined the public’s ability to trust what it sees, hears, and reads.
- The use of AI can make it easier for bad actors to construct highly persuasive and misleading content.
- There has been slow progress in the area of constraining the use of AI in political campaigns.
- There have been several initiatives for AI regulation aiming to address unsafe or ineffective systems, algorithmic discrimination, and abusive data practices, but none of this has resulted in changes that would resolve the use of AI in political campaigns.
- Two federal agencies with a chance to control the use of AI in political campaigning have not acted, very likely until after the 2024 US elections.
- One bill under consideration, the AI Transparency in Elections Act, would instruct the FEC to require disclosure when political advertising uses media generated substantially by AI.
- Critics say such disclosure is onerous and would increase the cost of political advertising.
- The Honest Ads Act would modernize campaign-finance law, extending FEC authority to definitively encompass digital advertising.
- The Protect Elections From Deceptive AI Act would ban materially deceptive AI-generated content from federal elections, as in California and other states.
- Congress seems resigned not to act before the election, benefiting tech platforms from the lack of evident rules governing political expenditures.
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