WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) is sounding the alarm about election safety.

The Senate Understanding Committee Chairman stated we already are living in a hyper-divided nation, and synthetic perception (AI) generation is making it more uncomplicated for adversaries to lie to electorate.

Warner stated that he’s involved concerning the worth of AI equipment, specifically the worth of deepfakes to trick U.S. voters. He’s additionally anxious about overseas intervention this election cycle, with the Presidential election now not up to six months away.

“This is an area that Americans need to be on guard. We all know we have plenty of disagreement amongst ourselves, a lot of strongly held political views. That’s part of our system. What we don’t need tough is foreign governments trying to interfere or trying to frankly further pit Americans against one another,” he stated Thursday.

Warner stated he believes American elections are much less hold these days than they have been 4 years in the past.