Policymakers crafting the forthcoming US Action Plan, state legislatures, and the authorities enforcing the EU AI Act should avoid outright bans on political deepfakes and refrain from imposing mandates that could force AI models to conform to specific and arbitrary values. The Alan Turing Institute found no significant evidence that AI altered results in elections in the UK, France, Europe, or the US Similarly, Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan of Princeton concluded, through their analysis of all 78 cases from the WIRED AI Elections Project, that the feared "wave" of AI-driven disinformation was far less extensive and impactful than anticipated.