I do think this is a significant cause for concern. I think that a lot of times when it comes specifically to foreign efforts to affect the conversation in an election, these things are happening at the community level, to a large extent. It's going to require a lot of work with local communities, with diaspora communities, to understand what's going on and what kinds of communications they are receiving. We are doing some of that work. I kept track of everything SITE did, as much as I could, during the election campaign, and there were public announcements around some of what was happening. That helps voters to determine how to make the right decisions and what information is coming at them. In several cases that I'm thinking of right now, there was an AI component. There was an effort made to make this piece of information look authentic and sophisticated.
That's the world we're in. I think it's an education thing, more than anything else. Trying to go down the road of controlling communication is very difficult. When it comes to something like generative AI in political ads, I agree with those who say we shouldn't be doing that, because it's an election. It's not just about trying to get the most sophisticated ways of getting people's attention. We're giving voters information about who they should be voting for, and we have to take that really seriously.
