AI dominates politics
Local candidates are keeping their eyes fixed on what transpired recently in South Korea and Romania.
All 317 seats in the House of Representatives and 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate will be contested to form the 20th Congress. Local elections will also be held for the executive and legislative branches in every province, city and municipality.
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) was never more highlighted than in the recent impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Yoon was impeached after a tumultuous period of unrest in his nation. Yoon declared martial law to hold on to power which was his undoing. It turned out that AI played a unique role in his election.
He developed an AI deep fake who was more sociable and engaging than his real self during the campaign period.
The real Yoon turned out to be less capable and lacked the leadership qualities that his AI counterpart portrayed, Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group reported.
Carl Bildt, the former prime minister of Sweden who is now co-chairperson of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shared that the European Union is investigating TikTok over the recent Romanian presidential election that was subsequently annulled.
Just days before the election, over 25,000 TikTok accounts suddenly appeared that were heavily supportive of the far right candidate.
These digital shenanigans are not new to us and it is widely believed that the Philippines was the original testbed for political trolling by troll armies and influential online personalities who were credited for the victories in the aforementioned elections.
AI is being touted as the ultimate disruptor and the recent political events is proof of this.