Throughout a speech in Washington on Thursday, Microsoft president Brad Smith mentioned that “deepfakes” are the largest threat of synthetic intelligence, Reuters reported.
Deep fakes, photos which are digitally manipulated to look extraordinarily sensible, will be dangerous of their potential to unfold misinformation, Smith argues.
“We have to take steps to guard in opposition to the alteration of respectable content material with an intent to deceive or defraud folks by way of the usage of AI,” he mentioned, per Reuters.
In April, Google CEO Sundar Pichai additionally known as out deepfakes and their potential use for malicious intent, saying the movies “trigger hurt to society.”
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Smith additionally known as for a licensing system for AI, with “obligations to guard safety, bodily safety, cybersecurity, nationwide safety.”
Earlier this month, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (which is backed by Microsoft), spoke earlier than Congress concerning the essential want for AI regulation and proposed an analogous licensing transfer: Lawmakers would define a sequence of security requirements that firms have to abide by to grant them a license, after which even have the facility to revoke it ought to they not adjust to the requirements.
“My worst concern is we trigger important hurt to the world,” Altman mentioned on the listening to.
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