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To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy


AI researcher Connor Leahy says regulating deepfakes is the first step to avert AI wiping out humanity

Much of the attention at Davos this year has been on the spiraling conflict in the Middle East and worsening effects of climate change, but Leahy argues that risk from advanced AI should be discussed right at the top of the agenda. That strategy: focus first on outlawing deepfakes, or AI generated images that are now being used on a massive scale to create nonconsensual sexual imagery of mostly women and girls. What really makes me more pessimistic is the rate of technical progress, and the amount of disregard for human life and suffering that we've seen from technocratic AI people.

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