May 8, 2024

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024

“The Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy group, and the Elections Group, which consults with election officials across the country, helped develop parts of the tabletop exercise for Arizona after studying and writing about the impact of AI on elections and hearing from election officials that they didn’t feel they had enough direction about how to deal with the threats from this new technology, said Larry Norden, senior director for elections and government at the Brennan Center.”