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AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: Disinformation bot threat is ‘shocking’ | BBC News


People can easily make fake election-related images with artificial intelligence tools, despite rules designed to prevent such content.

Politicians including US President Joe Biden and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have found themselves victims of deepfakes.

These are fake images or audio recordings generated by AI and have spread rapidly across social media.

AI threatens to "supercharge" disinformation and incite violence at elections, the US deputy attorney general has warned.

One of the so-called "godfathers" of AI Yoshua Bengio said he would have prioritised safety over usefulness had he realised the pace at which it would evolve.

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