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New study warns of moderate to high Al-driven risks to electoral integrity
Daily FT
|March 17, 2026
A new study by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) finds that Sri Lanka faces moderate to high risks to electoral integrity linked to the misuse of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), driven by vulnerabilities across regulation, politics, media, and society.
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The report, Sri Lanka’s Elections in a Machine-Mediated Age: Assessing GenAI-Related Risks to Electoral Integrity, assesses how AI-generated political content, synthetic media, and large language model (LLM)-based tools are reshaping Sri Lanka's digital political information ecosystem.
While AI does not create democratic fragility on its own, the study finds that in contexts marked by regulatory gaps, political polarisation, limited press freedom, and low public awareness of misinformation, these technologies can significantly intensify existing weaknesses and increase risks to electoral integrity.
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