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Fellow for Free Expression and Technology at the Cato Institute
The greatest fears of AI and elections have not materialized.
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Disputed The exact sentence appears verbatim in the cited Cato post, but the page is dated May 21, 2026 and the byline is David Inserra, not Brent Skorup. The stored source URL and quote text match the source; the stored author and date are not canonical. ([cato.org](https://www.cato.org/blog/ai-remaking-election-speech-thats-not-necessarily-bad-thing)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The sentence appears verbatim on the Cato page at the supplied URL, in the opening paragraphs of the article. However, that page is dated May 21, 2026 and the byline credits the piece to David Inserra, not Brent Skorup. I did not find a reliable source attributing this exact quote to Brent Skorup, so the quote is real but the attribution is wrong. ([cato.org](https://www.cato.org/blog/ai-remaking-election-speech-thats-not-necessarily-bad-thing)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Newly added recent (2026) companion quote to the older 2024 Skorup opinion. Quote: "The greatest fears of AI and elections have not materialized." attributed to Brent Skorup (Cato Institute legal fellow), 2026, source_url = Cato at Liberty blog "AI Is Remaking Election Speech. That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing." (published ~June 2026). WebFetch on the Cato page returned HTTP 403, but two independent web searches surfaced this sentence as text from that article, and the article's thesis (per its title and reporting) is that AI/deepfake election laws like California's AB 2839 are unnecessary and unconstitutional, with counterspeech preferable to censorship. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: the piece argues against criminalizing AI/deepfakes in elections, so the vote is AGAINST the statement "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns"; recorded vote is "against". Added alongside (not replacing) the verified 2024 quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 23d ago
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