Of particular concern in this regard are deepfakes, which are digitally manipulated images, audio, or video appearing to be legitimate.
The former president said, "That technology's here now.
"We're going to have all the problems we had with misinformation before," he said. "This next election cycle will be worse."
He said that means the general public has "to be more discriminating consumers of news and information [and that we need] to over time develop technologies to create watermarks or digital fingerprints so we know what is true and what is not true. There's a whole bunch of work that's going to have to be done there, but in the short term, it's really going to be up to the American people to kind of say."
