{"id":175149,"date":"2023-10-29T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/candidates-take-this-ai-election-pledge-or-2024-might-break-us"},"modified":"2023-10-29T04:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:26:38","slug":"candidates-take-this-ai-election-pledge-or-2024-might-break-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/candidates-take-this-ai-election-pledge-or-2024-might-break-us","title":{"rendered":"Candidates, take this AI election pledge. Or 2024 might break us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/candidates-take-this-ai-election-pledge-or-2024-might-break-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Mayor Eric Adams doesn\u2019t speak Spanish. But it sure sounds like he does. He\u2019s been using artificial intelligence software to send prerecorded calls about city events to residents in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu and Yiddish. The voice in the messages mimics the mayor but was generated with AI software from a company called ElevenLabs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople stop me on the street all the time and say, \u2018I didn\u2019t know you speak Mandarin,\u2019\u201d Adams said at a news conference this month.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have warned for years that AI will change our democracy by distorting reality. That future is already here. AI is being used to fabricate voices, fundraising emails and \u201cdeepfake\u201d images of events that never\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The first AI election is here. Our tech columnist proposes some ground rules for candidates\u2019 use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Eric Adams doesn\u2019t speak Spanish. But it sure sounds like he does. He\u2019s been using artificial intelligence software to send prerecorded calls about city events to residents in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu and Yiddish. The voice in the messages mimics the mayor but was generated with AI software from a company called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}