Tech Policy Center director Kara Fredrick explains how individuals and companies can mitigate the spread of misinformation by A.I. on'The Faulkner Focus.' British election regulators have urged politicians to pass new laws to limit spending on artificial intelligence (AI) as well as new requirements to identify AI-generated content. "The next U.K. general election is a ripe target for electronic disinformation given we are in the infancy of the AI age," Alan Mendoza, co-founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital. "Many of the possible problems that may emerge have not even been considered." "As a result, we face a race against the clock to introduce appropriate protections, or run the nightmare risk of bad actors influencing campaigns and destroying public trust in our democratic process," he added.

Democratic elections are not safe from AI interference, a former Google boss has warned. Eric Schmidt, who ran the tech giant for a decade, said fake images and videos of every politician would likely flood the internet during campaigning. This spread of AI-generated misinformation would drive the public'crazy' as they wouldn't be able to work out what was true, he predicted. Speaking to Andrew Marr on LBC, Mr Schmidt said the UK and US were'clearly' ahead in the AI race - and it was vital they decided what was'acceptable in democracy' when it came to regulation. His comments come as ministers are preparing to protect the next general election from manipulation by AI over fears it could be hijacked by deepfakes spread by hostile forces.