{"id":25214,"date":"2026-10-01T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/how-ai-could-supercharge-election-risks-across-south-east-asia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:37:15","slug":"how-ai-could-supercharge-election-risks-across-south-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/how-ai-could-supercharge-election-risks-across-south-east-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI could \u2018supercharge\u2019 election risks across south-east Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations<\/p>\n<p>Years ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving any army of cyber troops creating fake news websites, social media accounts and forged dossiers, all deployed to spread disinformation en masse.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all you need is AI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/01\/how-ai-could-supercharge-fake-news-elections-south-east-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/14fb9f38472e5b9c4a736c05c45a305ad892dc81\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c740c3d087708d0007b461ffc71724ec\" title=\"How AI could \u2018supercharge\u2019 election risks across south-east Asia\" \/>Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations<br \/>\nYears ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving any army of cyber troops creating fake news websites, social media accounts and forged dossiers, all deployed to spread disinformation en masse.<br \/>\nNow, all you need is AI. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations Years ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving any army of cyber troops creating fake news websites, social media accounts and forged dossiers, all deployed to spread disinformation en masse. Now, all you need &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/how-ai-could-supercharge-election-risks-across-south-east-asia\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How AI could \u2018supercharge\u2019 election risks across south-east Asia<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25215,"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\/25214"}],"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=25214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}