In an interview with Help Net Security, Mateusz Łabuz discussed the balance between using AI for personalized political campaigns and protecting voter privacy. Mateusz also discussed the potential of AI in fact-checking, the regulatory landscape, and the influence of AI on campaign strategies in authoritarian regimes.

See the excerpts from the interview:

How are global trends in AI adoption influencing campaign strategies in countries with entrenched authoritarian regimes?

In the case of authoritarian regimes, artificial intelligence should be seen as another tool for exercising control over citizens. It will therefore be subordinate to ideology, whether for disseminating specific narratives or for supervising the information space and the citizens themselves.

Global trends in AI are enabling authoritarian regimes to more advanced monitoring of society, or personalization of propaganda. All of these will be strengthening the control over political narratives. At the same time, AI might give activists the tools to counter authoritarian manipulation, however, I am quite realistic in that respect and I do not expect a breakthrough.

The whole talk might be read here.

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