This is the Guardian.

There's rarely a dull moment in the world of AI. But in the last week, life imitated art.

Scarlet Johanson saying this voice used by Open AI's virtual assistant Skye.

Hello, I'm really excited about teaming up with you.

Sounds quote eerily similar to her own.

Hi, how you doing?

The second global AI Safety Summit went ahead in Seoul, South Korea.

One of my concerns was that the whole thing was a summit that could have been an email.

And as the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak got drenched in the rain,

And we will have a general election on the 4th of July.

Experts warned us about how AI is already impacting the democratic process.

So today on Science Weekly, we'll be hearing from the Guardian's UK technology editor

Alex Hearn about the biggest AI stories from the last seven days.

From the Guardian I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

Alex Hearn nice to have you on. Now there's lots for us to chat about today, but I want to start with a report published by the Alan Turing Institute yesterday about the ways that AI could undermine the UK

general election.

One of the areas that they look at is the use of artificial intelligence in election campaigns which of course have just started here.

Give me an example of a potential risk that they highlight there.

When it comes to how AI could be involved there the most obvious one

the one that everyone is looking out for is what the researchers call character assassinations

they define it as highly realistic AI-generated content containing false allegations aimed

undermining a political candidate. In fact, we've already seen that in the UK. In the run-up to the local elections

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