Questions to ask about government use of deepfakes
Will the lure of deepfakes prove irresistible to democratic governments? What questions should governments ask—and who in government should be asking them—when a deepfake is being considered?
Will the lure of deepfakes prove irresistible to democratic governments? What questions should governments ask—and who in government should be asking them—when a deepfake is being considered?
In the 1800s, British colonists in India set about trying to reduce the cobra population, which was making life and trade very difficult in Delhi. They began to pay a bounty for dead cobras. The strategy very quickly resulted ...
The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world. The astronomical instrument ...
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