The following editorial originally appeared in The Seattle Times:
Experts have warned for more than a year that artificial intelligence-fueled misinformation is poised to upend American elections. Washingtonians have already seen it.
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs recently joined three other Democratic secretaries of state from New Mexico, Minnesota and Michigan calling out Elon Musk and his Grok AI search assistant for peddling election misinformation.
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