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Big Tech’s voluntary approach to deepfakes isn’t enough, top U.S. cyberdefense official says


Legislation is needed to keep artificial intelligence from being used in harmful ways, said the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

AI won’t completely change the long-running threat of weaponized propaganda, but it will “inflame” it, CISA Director Jen Easterly said at The Washington Post’s Futurist Summit on Thursday. Deepfakes and AI-generated images have been around for several years, but as the technology improves and the tools to make them become widely available, they’ve become increasingly common on social media platforms. Easterly also said that Chinese hackers are busy hacking into critical infrastructure in the United States, such as water treatment facilities and pipeline control centers, in order to “preposition” themselves to strike if there was ever a conflict between the two countries.

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