Morgan McSweeney swaps UK government for Ukraine-watching – POLITICO

PRAGUE — Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney will seek to raise the alarm over the danger posed by artificial intelligence in elections as he makes a rare public appearance in Prague.

McSweeney, who quit the government in February, will try to steer clear of the Labour leadership drama consuming Westminster as he addresses the GLOBSEC forum to warn about the threat to democracies from disinformation and AI-driven content.

Starmer’s former right-hand man is taking a particularly close interest in how AI could be used by Russia to interfere with any future elections in Ukraine, which he discussed at the Kyiv Security Forum in April.