Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest high-profile victim of an illegal impersonation enabled by artificial intelligence. Several nations’ foreign ministers, a state governor and a U.S. senator received voice messages apparently from him.

It's hard to overstate the damage such seemingly official communications involving senior government leaders with national security responsibilities could cause. And that is before further, pell-mell evolutions of artificial intelligence fed by a technology race with Communist China create what amounts to “FrankenAI.”  

The Trump administration wants no regulatory interference impeding that race. In its absence, the U.S. Senate just voted nearly unanimously against an amendment that would have precluded statesfrom regulating artificial intelligence for ten years. 

Secretary Rubio’s experience is but the latest warning that oversight and some regulation is required to warn of, and hopefully minimize, truly FrankenAI.

This is Frank Gaffney.