Deepfakes and the Epistemic Backstop Overview

Regina Rini discusses how deepfakes are often threaten what we call the “epistemic backstop,” or the trust that people put in visual systems – whether that be videos or images – when deciding what is real and what is not. For Rini, deepfakes threaten this system. Deepfakes can easily fabricate false information (or, false evidence)…

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Sam Altman Sets the Stage: His Proposed “Three Laws of AI”

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT), had recently introduced laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence. These laws provide a vision into the future of AI that rely on three observations: “intelligence scaling with resources, decreasing usage costs, and super-exponential socioeconomic value growth”. Intelligence scaling with resources refers t o…

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