Dr. Ciarán Seoighe:

I will quickly tackle the question on democracy in particular. Last year, because it was the year with the most elections on the planet at one time, I was curious to know if there was any research suggesting those elections had been negatively impacted by AI. The Turing Institute in the UK did a serious study into this topic. It found that across the globe there was negligible impact, which surprised me because I thought there would have been with all the deepfakes, soft fakes, scams and other things out there.

Its finding was that there was a negligible impact on the outcomes of elections.