US Election Officials to Decide on Rules for AI-Created Ads (1)

US election regulators will vote in September on whether to nix a proposal to regulate AI-generated content in political campaign ads, after Republican commissioners said they wouldn’t support the idea.

Federal Election Commission Chairman Sean Cooksey (R) and Commissioner Dara Lindenbaum (D) said in a statement first shared with Bloomberg Law Wednesday that they are working toward a “consensus resolution” on the topic.

The commission was set to vote at an open meeting Thursday on whether to reject a request from consumer-advocacy group Public Citizen to write regulations on AI. The Republican commissioners said this month that ...