Meta’s Nick Clegg plays down AI’s threat to global democracy

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’s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it.

Speaking at the Meta AI Day event in London on Tuesday, the social network’s 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’t being used in practice to subvert democracy.