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Election officials are role-playing AI threats to keep them from undermining democracy
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Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes led a tabletop exercise for journalists to role-play as election officials to understand the speed and scale of AI threats they face. | Photo by Ash Ponders for The Verge
The job has never been harder, and the threats have never been stranger.