A Campaign Aide Didn't Write That Email. A.I. Did. - The New York Times

And as synthetic media gets more believable, the question becomes: What happens when people can no longer trust their own eyes and ears? Inside campaigns, artificial intelligence is expected to soon help perform mundane tasks that previously required fleets of interns. Republican and Democratic engineers alike are racing to develop tools to harness A.I. to make advertising more efficient, to engage in predictive analysis of public behavior, to write more and more personalized copy and to discover new patterns in mountains of voter data. The technology is evolving so fast that most predict a profound impact, even if specific ways in which it will upend the political system are more speculation than science. "It's an iPhone moment -- that's the only corollary that everybody will appreciate," said Dan Woods, the chief technology officer on Mr. Biden's 2020 campaign.