[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 185 (Wednesday, November 8, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5407-S5408]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Artificial Intelligence

  Today, Senators from both sides of the aisle will take the next step 
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keeping our elections secure--this time from the powerful changes 
wrought by artificial intelligence, AI.
  This morning, I will join with colleagues from both sides and with 
experts from across the country for our AI Insight Forum on elections 
and democracy. It is one of the most important forums that we will hold 
this year, because of all the ways AI will shape our lives, and few are 
as immediate and stark as the impact it could have on elections.
  This is the problem we now face: If left unchecked, AI has the 
potential to erode our democracy from within and from abroad.
  Political ads have already been released this year using AI-generated 
images and text-to-voice converters to depict certain candidates in a 
negative light. Uncensored chatbots can already be deployed in a 
massive scale to target millions of individual voters for political 
persuasion. And, unfortunately, once damaging information is sent to 
100 million homes, it is hard--and at times impossible--to put the 
genie back in the bottle.
  If we don't enact the right guardrails soon, we could soon live in a 
world where political campaigns regularly deploy totally fabricated yet 
totally believable images and footage of Democratic or Republican 
candidates, distorting their statements and greatly harming their 
election chances.
  Protecting our elections from AI's risks isn't just an issue for 
Democrats or just Republicans. Everyone--everyone--will be affected. 
Time is of the essence, as Americans prepare to go to the polls in 
2024. So I encourage all my colleagues to come to this AI forum this 
morning.