“The 2024 elections are going to be a mess because social media is not protecting us from false generated AI. They're working on it, but they haven't solved it yet.”

Eric SchmidtCEO

Former CEO and Chairman of Google; co-founder of Schmidt Futures

Platforms did cut trust-and-safety staff as Schmidt warned, but the 2024 US election was not the AI-driven 'mess' he predicted: retrospectives from the Harvard Ash Center and the Knight First Amendment Institute concluded the feared AI misinformation wave had marginal effect on the vote, with non-AI fakes far more prevalent.