AI in Politics Is So Much Bigger Than Deepfakes

Last week, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, some of the state's voters received a robocall purporting to be from President Joe Biden. Unlike the other such prerecorded calls reminding people to vote, this one had a different ask: Don't bother coming out to the polls, the voice instructed. Better to "save your vote for the November election." The message was strange, even nonsensical, but the voice on the line sure did sound like the president's. And caller ID showed that the call came from a former chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, according to the Associated Press.