🤔 AI Threats to 2024 Election?

In today's email

1. 🤔 Federal Assessment Highlights AI Threats to 2024 Election

2. 📈 State of Email and Collaboration Security Report

3. 💻 Microsoft Unveils AI-Optimized Computers with Qualcomm Chips

4. 🤯 Quick Takes

Read Time: 5 Minutes

In the Know​
Federal Assessment Highlights AI Threats to 2024 Election

A new federal assessment by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns that artificial intelligence poses a significant threat to the integrity of the 2024 election. The report, obtained by ABC News, highlights how advanced AI technologies, while beneficial for progress, can be misused to disrupt democratic processes and influence voter behavior.

Key Points:

• Enhanced Interference Tools: Generative AI can be used by domestic and foreign actors to interfere with election processes, spread disinformation, and attack election infrastructure.

• Specific Threats Identified: AI tools can create deepfakes, misleading images, videos, and audio clips to confuse voters and disrupt election activities.

• Recent Examples: Instances like AI-generated audio messages impersonating public figures have already been reported, highlighting the immediacy of the threat.

• Expert Opinions: Former DHS officials emphasize the urgency of addressing these AI-driven threats, noting the rapid evolution and sophistication of such technologies.

• Wider Context: The threat landscape is complicated by ongoing global conflicts, domestic political tensions, and the proliferation of misinformation.

The DHS assessment underscores the urgent and complex challenge posed by AI technologies to the 2024 election. With AI enabling sophisticated interference tactics, it is critical for authorities to implement robust strategies and educate the public to safeguard the democratic process.

State of Email and Collaboration Security Report

Free Report

The need to address human risk management, email and phishing attacks, and generative AI among users across organisations of all types provides the backdrop for Mimecast’s SOECS 2024 report.

Based on interviews with 1,100 CISOs and other information technology professionals from numerous industrial sectors and six countries, the report documents the precise nature of these risks and the steps that are being taken to overcome them.

Microsoft Unveils AI-Optimized Computers with Qualcomm Chips

Microsoft announced new Surface devices equipped with advanced Qualcomm chips designed to efficiently run AI tasks without quickly draining battery life. The Surface Laptop and Surface Pro tablet, along with AI-ready PCs from other manufacturers like Lenovo, Dell, and HP, feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus processors, promising extended battery life and enhanced AI capabilities, including Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot.

Additionally, future PCs with AMD and Intel chips will also support the Copilot+ standard, enabling features like audio translation and message response recommendations. Priced from $999, these new AI-enabled devices, available for pre-order, will hit the market in June, reflecting Microsoft's commitment to integrating ChatGPT-like AI capabilities directly into their hardware.

What’s Trending

By 2025, it’s predicted that generative AI will hold about 30% of the entire AI market and be valued at roughly $60 billion.

Quick Takes

• OpenAI Suspends AI Voice Amid Similarity Concerns: OpenAI is halting the use of one of its AI voices, Sky, due to its perceived similarity to Scarlett Johansson's voice, despite clarifications that it belongs to a different actress. The decision comes in response to user inquiries about voice selection and sampling processes, prompting the company to temporarily pause Sky's usage while addressing these concerns.

• AI Seoul Summit: World leaders and top AI companies gathered virtually at the AI Seoul Summit to address the potential risks and benefits of artificial intelligence, building on commitments from last November's AI Safety Summit in the UK. The summit saw 16 major AI companies pledge to ensure the safe development of AI, including halting deployment if extreme risks cannot be mitigated.

Reach business owners, entrepreneurs , tech professionals and more!

We cut through the noise to bring you the most relevant AI news, insights, and trends. If you’re interested in advertising with us, shoot us an email to [email protected].