Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

By Associated Press

Feb 17, 2024 10:41 am

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.

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