Hi -- Team Slotkin here! The email below might look strange, but we promise it has a point. The first half of this email was drafted, in its entirety, by ChatGPT. Read on for our discussion about how AI will impact campaigns!

Friend —

We find ourselves in the midst of an AI election, a new era that's not distant or abstract, but very much here and now. Artificial Intelligence is already influencing the 2024 elections, helping campaigns to identify donors and voters more efficiently. But the potential for misuse is alarming. The creation of 'deepfake' videos, images, and messages that can mislead and deceive voters is a stark reality of this new landscape.

This point was highlighted in a recent Axios article. The report detailed an AI-generated video released by the Republican National Committee, which depicted fictitious scenes to paint a dystopian image of America under a second Biden term. The clear intention was to twist our political discourse, to sow discord and mistrust through manipulation.

Elissa is deeply concerned about the potential misuse of AI in our elections. In her view, democracy is about truth, transparency, and the will of the people, not about who can create the most convincing deepfake or disinformation campaign.

Before we continue, we think it's important to share something with you. This very email, up to this point, was drafted by an AI. Yes, that's right. AI is already so advanced that it can write a coherent, persuasive email like this one.

Hi – Team Slotkin back again. We thought the above email would be a way to tangibly demonstrate just one of the ways AI can be used in elections.

And while Elissa is old school (she still hand writes her edits to emails like this one – in mechanical pencil), this campaign is always looking to understand how the latest technology will impact us. Besides deepfake videos, there's also a serious risk of spreading disinformation through AI-generated robocalls, texts, and social media posts that spread even more quickly than today’s information. Some of this disinformation could certainly be aimed at dampening voter turnout, or fake reporting of results.

Given Elissa’s national security background, we’ve been thinking A LOT about how this could impact 2024.

We’ll continue to keep you in the loop on how this develops. In the meantime if you want to help Elissa run an honest, transparent, and human-run campaign – chip in below!

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P.S. While AI can do a lot, we tried to have it make us a new campaign logo to put in this email and these are what it gave us… so maybe the future isn’t here just quite yet.