One by one, the original designers of artificial intelligence (AI) have come out in recent weeks to warn about the technologies that may autonomously create everything from complex texts to fake images of real people or of fake people appearing real. Disinformation and the snowballing damaging effects of the use of that technology on society were on most of their lips.
Meanwhile, concerns over insufficient regulations on data privacy, which may be abused by companies and governments to track and control individuals and undermine human rights, have also made headlines. Human rights defenders are also speaking out, stressing that in the face of the threat, there is a dire lack of independent experts to monitor and expose abuses, as well as advocate for guardrails.
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