Major technology companies signed a pact on Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) 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. Microsoft says Iran, North Korea, China and Russia starting to use generati…