
In January 2024, the phone rang in homes all around New Hampshire. On the other end was Joe Biden’s voice, urging Democrats to “save your vote” by skipping the primary. It sounded authentic, but it wasn’t. The call was a fake, generated by artificial intelligence [1]. Today, the technology behind that hoax already looks quaint. With tools like OpenAI’s Sora creating convincing synthetic videos in minutes, the fear of AI election campaigns being overwhelmed by realistic fake media has gone mainstream. But that’s only half the story. The deeper, more subtle threat isn’t that AI can merely imitate people – it’s that it can actively persuade them. New research reveals that AI has evolved from simple imitation to active, personalized...







