AI will not determine 2027 election outcome – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that artificial quality (AI) volition not find the result of the 2027 wide elections.

It stressed that captious electoral decisions would stay nether quality control.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, gave the assurance on Wednesday while delivering the keynote code astatine the Artificial Intelligence and Democracy Forum 2026 successful Abuja.

According to the commission’s Wednesday bulletin, the forum was organised successful collaboration with Yiaga Africa to sermon the interaction of AI connected elections and democracy.

Amupitan said elector accreditation, effect collation and decisions connected candidates’ qualifications would not beryllium near wholly to automated systems.

“Algorithms volition not, and indispensable never, determine the 2027 vote,” helium said.

He added that Nigerians unsocial had the close to take their leaders.

He explained that quality oversight, ineligible procedures and judicial reappraisal would stay important passim the electoral process.

The INEC chairman, however, warned that the increasing usage of AI could airs superior challenges to the credibility of elections, peculiarly done the dispersed of fake videos, cloned audio recordings and mendacious information.

He said advances successful generative AI had made i...