- INEC Chairman Professor Joash Amupitan said on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, that algorithms "will not, and must never, decide the 2027 vote".
- INEC has set up an Artificial Intelligence Unit in its ICT Directorate, with deepfake detection software and real-time monitoring tools.
- Result collation, voter accreditation and candidate qualification will not be fully automated for the elections on 16 January and 6 February 2027.
INEC says AI won’t decide 2027 vote: what its new deepfake unit means for you
INEC has set up a unit to detect deepfakes before the 2027 elections and says result collation and voter accreditation will stay in human hands.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set up an Artificial Intelligence Unit to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated falsehoods ahead of the 2027 general elections, its chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, SAN, said on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. He announced it in his keynote address at the Artificial Intelligence and Democracy Forum 2026 in Abuja, held with the civic group…