Deepfakes threaten upcoming elections, but ‘responsible AI’ could help filter them out before they reach us

By Shweta Singh, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Earlier this year, thousands of Democrat voters in New Hampshire received a telephone call ahead of the state primary, urging them to stay home rather than vote.

The call supposedly came from none other than President Joe Biden. But the message was a “deepfake”. This term covers videos, pictures, or audio made with artificial intelligence (AI) to appear real, when they are not.…

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