LAWMAKERS’ CONCERNS More than 20 Members of Parliament (MPs) rose to speak during the motion, which asked that parliament reaffirm its commitment to adopt a whole-of-nation approach to sustain trust by building an inclusive and safe digital society. The motion was tabled by the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Communications and Information, with 13 specific … Read more
Jan 3 (Thomson Foundation) – Divyendra Singh Jadoun was busy making artificial intelligence-based visual effects and voice clones for film and television in India, when he began getting calls from politicians: could he create AI videos, or deepfakes, for their election campaign? With a hotly-contested local election in his home state of Rajasthan last November, … Read more
With deepfakes going mainstream and social media guardrails fading, a top artificial intelligence (AI) expert believes misinformation will be plaguing the upcoming US presidential elections. Three years after a mob stormed the US Capitol, the false election conspiracy theory that triggered the unprecedented chaos and violence continues to poison minds and threaten future peace in … Read more
