Day: February 1, 2023

Human & Machine Power & Democracy

Faking it: The rise of deepfake powered deception and its consequences.

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) ) technology continues to advance, a new and potentially dangerous trend is emerging: deepfakes. Deepfakes are digital creations that use machine learning algorithms to manipulate audio, video, and images in a way that makes it appear as though someone is saying or doing something that they did not […]

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

Deepfakes And The Need For New Policy And Education

In modern days, there are several different programs that can be used to modify pictures and videos, for example Photoshop and deepfakes. Unlike Photoshop, which can be used for enhancing real human faces, deepfakes are based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that synthesize videos in which the face of a real person is replaced by that […]

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

The overlooked effect of Artificial Intelligence: are we losing our capability to comprehend reality?

Throughout history, it has been an important custom for the young to absorb knowledge from older generations. Full focused attention was given from tribesmen to elders, apprentices to masters, and from followers to leaders, because they knew the words that were spoken by them contained invaluable wisdom, gathered and distilled through their manifold experiences. Times […]

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