Expert Brief

Adequate transparency and oversight can ensure AI tools in election offices are helpful and not harmful.

Political campaigns should be watchful of the risks and opportunities of using generative AI to engage with voters.

Policymakers must prevent manipulated media from being used to undermine elections and disenfranchise voters.

Government must implement safeguards against malicious uses of AI that could misrepresent public opinion and distort policymaking.

Trends in state legislation could guide Congress’s approach to regulating this new technology.

To protect election infrastructure and personnel from AI-generated threats, election offices and vendors must implement the best practices that experts have been urging for over a decade.

Congress has a chance to protect the freedom to vote against a wave of discriminatory state laws.

Our democracy is under threat. Congress must respond.

The attempts to undermine safe and secure elections are evolving.

State supreme court benches fail to reflect the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of the communities they serve and the diversity of the legal profession.