The use of artificial intelligence by foreign governments to spread disinformation could threaten this year’s presidential election, according to Hillary Clinton, who said the methods used against her 2016 presidential campaign were “primitive” compared to today’s technology.

“Anybody who’s not worried is not paying attention,” Clinton, also a former senator and secretary of state, told an audience Thursday at Columbia University during a discussion between election officials and technology executives on AI and global elections, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“It could only be a very small handful of people in St. Petersburg or Moldova or wherever they are right now who are lighting the fire, but because of the algorithms everyone gets burned,” she added.

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