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Hundreds of AI luminaries sign letter calling for anti-deepfake legislation


Hundreds in the artificial intelligence community have signed an open letter calling for strict regulation of AI-generated impersonations, or deepfakes.

Jaron Lanier Frances Haugen Stuart Russell Andrew Yang Marietje Schaake Steven Pinker Gary Marcus Oren Etzioni Genevieve smith Yoshua Bengio Dan Hendrycks Tim Wu In case you’re curious, one person from OpenAI signed, a couple from Google Deepmind, and none at press time from Anthropic, Amazon, Apple, or Microsoft (except Lanier, whose position there is non-standard). Or perhaps it is yesterday’s task force being announced with no particular agenda other than maybe writing a report about what some AI-based threats might be and how they might be legislatively restricted.

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