Schumer Urges Congress to Act Against AI Election-Related Harm
Congress must act quickly to address AI-driven harms in U.S. elections, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday on the Senate floor. He hosted the fifth and sixth AI Insight Forums, where attendees heard from experts about elections, privacy…
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and liability. Attendees included: Microsoft Information Integrity Director Matthew Masterson, Meta Vice President-Public Policy Neil Potts, Google Global Elections Integrity Director David Vorhaus, Anti-Defamation League Vice President-Center for Technology & Society Yael Eisenstat, TechFreedom Free Speech Counsel Ari Cohn, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (R), Public Knowledge CEO Chris Lewis, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Vice President Daniel Castro, Center for Democracy & Technology Vice President-Policy Samir Jain, Match Group CEO Bernard Kim and Mozilla President Mark Surman. Schumer raised concerns about AI-generated political ads and uncensored chatbots harming candidates from both parties. “If we don’t enact the right guardrails soon, we could soon live in a world where political campaigns regularly deploy totally fabricated -- yet totally believable -- images and footage” of candidates from both parties, “distorting their statements and greatly harming their election chances,” he said.