Artificial Intelligence a 'threat to democracy' says government expert ahead of 2024 elections

Artificial intelligence will threaten our democracy ahead of upcoming elections in the United Kingdom and the United States, according to one of the world's leading computer scientists.

Speaking on Beth Rigby Interviews... Dame Wendy Hall says AI's ability to damage democracy should be more of an immediate concern than any existential threat posed by the technology.

The UK's AI skills champion told Beth: "Next year we will see a growth in disinformation, the deep fakes of this world, because AI makes it very easy to do that.

"You can just get the tools off the internet and it's getting harder and harder to detect that a video, or a photo, or a piece of text has been faked."