Few AI deepfakes identified in EU elections, says Microsoft President Smith

Microsoft has not seen significant use of artificial intelligence in the European Parliamentary elections for creating disinformation campaigns, the company’s president told Reuters in an interview.

Brad Smith was in Stockholm to announce Microsoft’s plan to invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns ($3.21 billion) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden over a two-year period.

“We have to recognise the risks that AI can create in the context of creating abusive content and one form of abusive content would be AI generated deep fakes,” Smith said.