"The keynote speaker was Danielle Citron, Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron addressed the rise of “deep fakes,” sophisticated fake audio and video that can be easily produced by people with access to the technology.
Citron warned the audience that the democratization of this technology could have devastating effects on the political process. She discussed the possibility of a fabricated video that incriminates or embarrasses a political candidate surfacing the night before an election.
“The central harm to democracy is the way it sews distrust in the world around us as well as in institutions, journalists and the media being the central [institutions] when we think about democracy,” she said in an interview."
- Date Published:10/18/2018
- Original Publication:The Daily Free Press