Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Wednesday he will oppose bipartisan legislation coming out of the Senate Rules Committee that would ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create deceptive content about federal candidates to influence elections.
McConnell, a longtime opponent of campaign finance restrictions, warned that the bills coming out of the Rules Committee would tamper with what he called the well-developed legal regime for taking down false ads and create new definitions that could reach well beyond deepfakes.