AI-driven misinformation ‘biggest short-term threat to global economy’

World Economic Forum highlights risk of election interference in year UK and US go to polls

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A wave of artificial intelligence-driven misinformation and disinformation that could influence key looming elections poses the biggest short-term threat to the global economy, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said.

In its annual global risks report, the body that convenes its annual meeting in Davos next week expressed concern that politics could be disrupted by the spread of false information.