AI-driven election interference targets Taiwan’s 2026 elections — deepfakes and synthetic campaign content. AIM incident, 33 articles.
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When biologists experiment on dangerous viruses, they do so under strict regulations to prevent leaks or escapes. But no such rules exist to prevent AI agents from similarly escaping – even though the consequences could be catastrophic. That’s not a theoretical concern: An OpenAI test model escaped its test environment this week and broke into a real company’s servers when attempting to ace an internal cybersecurity evaluation.
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CAISI had great talent to start but has bled out from lack of funding. We should fight for good expertise in government. The competitors you named have not been working together to date, and that led OpenAI to accidentally commit cyberattacks last month.
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Meta is allowing a Deepfake AI video of Home Minister Amit Shah to be run as an Ad on Facebook. The Ad is promoting financial scam. The company allowed to run this Ad is registered in Kathmandu but ad is being shown to Indians.
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Why we should all be worried about AI in elections. Deepfakes dominate headlines, but the real danger lies in opaque AI systems that make up election infrastructure.
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AI-generated political advertising is forcing states to confront a question their new election laws do not always answer cleanly: When does digitally altered campaign material become an illegal deepfake?
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly sent his apologies to the central government on Wednesday for CSAM (child sexual abuse material), deepfake content, and errors in operating the platform.
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BREAKING: OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its “Preparedness” team, which was responsible for assessing catastrophic risks from its AI models. The team’s biosecurity and cybersecurity work is being reassigned to existing groups.
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Taiwan dealt with an impossible flood of deepfake scam ads by texting random people, picking a true cross section of society, and letting them draft legislation that turned into actual law in two months and dropped scams by over 94 percent.
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Twórcy najpopularniejszych systemów sztucznej inteligencji – OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic i inni – zadeklarowali, że będą oznaczać treści tworzone przez AI. To efekt podpisania unijnego Kodeksu Postępowania w ramach AI Act (Artykuł 50). Anthropic właśnie pokazał niewidoczny znak wodny w tekście i podpisane metadane C2PA w plikach graficznych, na całym świecie.
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India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.
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