{"id":14039,"date":"2024-04-09T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/metas-nick-clegg-plays-down-ais-threat-to-global-democracy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:37:44","slug":"metas-nick-clegg-plays-down-ais-threat-to-global-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/metas-nick-clegg-plays-down-ais-threat-to-global-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg plays down AI\u2019s threat to global democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chief<\/p>\n<p>Generative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Meta AI Day event in London on Tuesday, the social network\u2019s global affairs chief said that the evidence from major elections that have already been run this year around the world is that technology such as large language models, image and video generators, and speech synthesis tools aren\u2019t being used in practice to subvert democracy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/09\/metas-nick-clegg-plays-down-ais-threat-to-global-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/22bdc75f2ed76d098f7bb795c9ea960f9ca1da60\/0_0_6255_3753\/master\/6255.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=469925822fc11d55274c48b50ad0b94b\" title=\"Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg plays down AI\u2019s threat to global democracy\" \/>Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chief<br \/>\nGenerative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the Meta AI Day event in London on Tuesday, the social network\u2019s global affairs chief said that the evidence from major elections that have already been run this year around the world is that technology such as large language models, image and video generators, and speech synthesis tools aren\u2019t being used in practice to subvert democracy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chief Generative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it. Speaking at the Meta AI Day event in London &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/metas-nick-clegg-plays-down-ais-threat-to-global-democracy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg plays down AI\u2019s threat to global democracy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}