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Music and technology have been evolving together since long before the advent of AI. But without better safeguards now, artists face an uncertain future.
Most New Zealanders are worried about AI, but the government’s new strategy has little to reassure them. Emulating the EUs approach to managing risk might help.
AI avatars of dead people are teaching courses and testifying in court. Even with the best of intentions, the emerging practice of AI ‘reanimations’ is an ethical quagmire.
Existing efforts to regulate AI share a limitation: they’re built around intended use, not the messy, creative and often unintended ways it is actually being used.
A law with broad bipartisan support aims to take on AI-generated sexual abuse, but enforcement issues and privacy blind spots could leave victims just as vulnerable.
The solution demands two simple and clear actions: declare that photo manipulation has taken place and disclose what manipulation was carried out.
Some countries have already moved to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in political campaigning. New Zealand should follow suit.
Generative AI tools are constantly improving — making it increasingly difficult for us to detect which images are AI-generated and which are real.
Strategies to combat misinformation often focus on written materials and fact-checking. Identifying deepfakes requires different skills.
AI-powered voice cloning apps are now easily accessible and cost as little as $100 to use. The law needs to catch up. But how?
US lawmakers are looking at intellectual property rights as one weapon in the arsenal against AI-driven deepfakes. New Zealand can learn from how it plays out.
US law tries to strike a balance between free speech and protecting people from harm. When it comes to child pornography, AI makes that task all the more difficult.
The report contains 67 recommendations – none of which address misinformation and disinformation.
The law on deepfakes of children is more established than for adults, but there are still a lot of challenges.
To say there is a lot of hype about AI is an understatement. Yet a pragmatic policy discussion is possible, and the public is more ready than we might think.
If left unchallenged, political deep fake videos could have profound impacts on Australian elections.
While AI promises to transform criminal justice by increasing operational efficiency and improving public safety, it also comes with risks around privacy, accountability, fairness and human rights.
There’s ever-evolving ways for children and young people to be harmed online. Here’s what kids think about the harms they experience and how to prevent them.
Within seconds, an app can turn anyone’s photo into an explicit image. The law is catching up to make this a criminal offence, but we need to do more.
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Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, & Deputy Director, Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Director, UB Media Forensic Lab, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Filmmaking, University of Reading
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Research Scientist in Cybersecurity, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, Chair in Educational Leadership in the Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Digital Contexts - National Bank, Université Laval
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor and Chair of Cybersecurity, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
