Prof. Wesley Wildman featured in BU Today: AI in Political Propaganda
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Is Trump’s Indictment Good for Democracy?” by Joel Brown, featuring Professor of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics Wesley Wildman. Click here to read the full article.
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Recently artificial intelligence has been a big story in part for its ability to create deep fakes in images, audio, and video. It seems possible, even likely, that it will be used for propaganda now through social media and other channels. What should people watch out for?
Wildman: AI is known to have been used already for mis- or disinformation campaigns in hundreds of cases, and surely it has been used in many more about which we know nothing. Deep fake technology is coming along extremely quickly.
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