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National Republican Senatorial Committee
The campaign arm of US Senate Republicans; notable in the AI record for airing an attack ad built on a full AI recreation of an opposing candidate.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is the campaign arm of the US Senate Republican caucus. It enters the AI record as a political actor: in March 2026 it aired an attack advertisement built around a fully computer-generated recreation of a Texas Democratic Senate candidate, which several outlets reported as the first ad in a US Senate race to present a synthetic version of an opponent for its entire duration rather than for backgrounds or brief effects. The episode became a reference point in debates over AI-generated deepfakes and disclosure rules in political campaigning.
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- Policy, governance & think tanks
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- 1916
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- Washington, DC, US
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Public opinion turns sharply against AI data centres
Opposition to a nearby data centre rose from 42% to 75% in a year across every party, turning the AI buildout into a midterm liability.
Government & policy · Culture & impact · Compute & infrastructure
NRSC airs first fully AI-recreated candidate deepfake in US Senate race ad
An 85-second video used a computer-generated likeness of the Democratic candidate reading his own past social-media posts, with a small on-screen 'AI GENERATED' label.
Culture & impact · Security & misuse