My friends, happy Tuesday. Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the top news stories in politics over the last week. Check it out!
Biden robocalls foretell a frightening future
New Hampshire’s attorney general sounded the alarm on Monday about some residents who received robocalls that imitate President Joe Biden’s voice, in which the caller discourages people from voting in the state’s Democratic primary. The source of the robocalls is uncertain — though I’ll note here that dubious robocalls have been used by partisans in the past to suppress votes.
The latest story about the Biden robocall shows the urgent need for federal and local officials to develop measures to curb malicious uses of artificial intelligence before the problem gets too widespread to solve.
Read more at NBC News.
FEC taking its sweet time
The nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, which has pushed federal regulators to take action to curb the use of artificial intelligence in political ads, says the Federal Election Commission is “slow-walking the issue.” The criticism follows a statement from Republican FEC Chairman Sean Cooksey that the commission will consider whether to establish rules around deepfakes in political ads by “early summer.” Cooksey told The Washington Post that “any suggestion that the FEC is not working on the pending AI rulemaking petition is false.”
Read more at The Washington Post.
Meta accusations
A newly unredacted court filing in a lawsuit brought against Meta by the state of New Mexico alleges the company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, estimated that in 2021 as many as 100,000 children a day experienced sexual harassment on its platforms. The company told CNBC that it has addressed problems identified in the complaint, which it says “mischaracterizes our work using selective quotes and cherry-picked documents.”
Read more at CNBC.
Justice Kagan’s AI issues
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan voiced concern about the implications for…
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