AI Weekly: The election

In the United States, there was nothing else this week except for the presidential election. More people voted in this election than in any other previous U.S. presidential election -- a total of 143,518,226 votes and counting. As we close out a long, stressful week, it appears all but a formality that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be the country's next President and Vice President. Meanwhile, Donald Trump rages on in a toothless effort to hang onto power. The results of the election were not the resounding referendum against white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry that many had hoped for. But at least the fears about how technology could tip the scales of this election didn't apparently come to pass -- many were concerned about numerous threats from (or enabled by) technology, from deepfakes to bots to hacking.