UK's National Cyber Security Center Warns of AI Threat to Next Election

Emergence of State-Aligned Cyber Actors and Rise of China as Tech Superpower Add to Security Concerns

The UK's National Cyber Security Center warns that artificial intelligence, including 'deepfakes', poses a threat to the country's next national election.
State-aligned cyber actors, often sympathetic to Russia's further invasion of Ukraine, have emerged as a new threat to critical national infrastructure.
The rise of China as a tech superpower is seen as an 'epoch-defining challenge for UK security'.
Despite the UK's traditional method of voting with pencil and paper, the spread of disinformation during a campaign could be facilitated by AI technologies.
The UK has set up a Defending Democracy Taskforce and a Joint Election Security Preparedness unit in response to these threats.