Major Tech Companies Sign Pact to Prevent AI Disruption of Elections

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Major technology companies have agreed to adopt precautions to prevent the use of artificial intelligence tools in disrupting democratic elections. The companies, including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and TikTok, announced a new framework at the Munich Security Conference. The framework aims to address the issue of AI-generated deepfakes that intentionally deceive voters. Other companies, including Elon Musk's X, are also joining the accord.

Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce a new framework for how they respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters.

Twelve other companies — including Elon Musk's X — are also signing on to the accord.“Everybody recognizes that no one tech company, no one government, no one civil society organization is able to deal with the advent of this technology and its possible nefarious use on their own,” said Nick Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in an interview ahead of the summi

 

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