Ex-NSA director Nakasone now downplays China’s election-meddling and AI deception as ‘non-issues’

When Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone left the helm after six years as head of the National Security Agency, he worried about two emergent threats: China’s potential meddling in U.S. elections and deepfakes generated by ever more powerful artificial intelligence systems. But speaking with reporters at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington this week, the retired general said he now believes “both of those issues really are non-issues to me.” The former leader of NSA and U.S. Cyber Command mobilized those agencies’ Election Security Group to combat foreign threats last year,...