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Home secretary, who is due to meet US tech bosses, says states such as Russia and Iran could target other countries as wellCriminals and “malign actors” working on behalf of malicious states could use AI-generated “deepfakes” to hijack the general election, the home secretary has said.James Cleverly was speaking before meetings with social media bosses and said the rapid advancement of technology could pose a serious threat to elections across the globe. Continue reading.

Yvonne Whalley on the rise of AI actors. Plus a letter from Mike Peacock on Donald’s Sinden’s OthelloSo, the TV director James Hawes has told parliament’s culture, media, and sport committee that within three to five years, soaps will be created by artificial intelligence (TV soaps could be made by AI within three years, director warns, 22 February). He is, of course, not the first to make this prediction. Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential, first performed at the Stephen J