The AI Threat to Democracy - ExtremeTech

Addressing the first of these fundamental requirements, consider the difficulty in protecting ballot boxes from outside manipulation. On the face of it, this has little to do with artificial intelligence, since ballot stuffing and other means of subverting the voting booth have always been ubiquitous. However, now that voting has increasingly gone digital, the threat of a hacked ballot box looms larger than ever. Even Facebook, with its gargantuan security budget, has proven vulnerable to hackers. How much more vulnerable, then, is the municipally-funded voting booth in rural west Texas staffed by volunteers? And increasingly, the ingenuity behind such hacking will be conceived of not by humans, but rather by artificial intelligence.