Canada’s next election likely to face AI-assisted interference, watchdogs say

Bad actors will likely use artificial intelligence to try to disrupt Canada’s next federal election, warn two of the country’s top election watchdogs. Testifying before a parliamentary committee and speaking to reporters on Tuesday, foreign affairs deputy minister David Morrison and Nathalie Drouin, national security adviser to Prime Minister Mark Carney, said foreign adversaries are likely to use the increasingly popular technology. The two pointed to the rise of deepfakes — hyperrealistic synthetic or manipulated images and video generated with AI — in particular. “Look at how fast all this is going,” Morrison told reporters. “I don’t know when the…