Democracy Doesn't Need to Be Hacked. It Just Needs to Stop Believing Itself. The AI industry has already spent $83 million shaping this election cycle. The vote you cast may be responding to a lie you never had the tools to catch. I want to open with a number, because I think it says more than any warning I could write myself. Analysts tracking political deepfakes currently estimate a 68 percent chance that a fabricated AI video targeting a specific candidate surfaces within