AI IQ: safeguarding elections requires more oversight to thwart voter manipulation, say expert, Senator

Federal parties' resistance to creating uniform privacy policies leaves voter information vulnerable to election interference by foreign actors who could feed it into generative-AI tools, says ISG Senator Colin Deacon.
Artificially generated images of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau created by inputting their names into a free online AI tool. Though it has its upsides, AI can also be used to manipulate public opinion by disseminating misleading and false information at an alarming rate, says Ksenia Yadav.

With the emergence of artificially generated images and video in political campaigns and elections, machine-learning expert Ksenia Yadav says it would be “futile” to try and restrict political parties from using the powerful new tool. But, she says, great power also come...

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