Trust in Tech, Episode 12: Deepfakes, Biases and AI Hegemony with Claire Boine

Welcome to the Trust in Tech podcast, a project by the Integrity Institute — a community driven think tank which advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet, powered by our community of integrity professionals.

Deepfakes have gained steam on video platforms including Tik Tok and Reels. For example, we hear Obama, Trump and Biden ranking their favorite rappers and even playing dungeons and dragons. Does this technology have potential harmful effects?

This episode features Claire Boine, an expert in AI law, in conversation with Integrity Institute member Talha Baig, a Machine Learning (ML) Engineer. 

Claire is a PhD candidate in AI Law at the University of Ottawa, and a Research Associate at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute and in the Accountable AI in a Global Context Research Chair at UOttawa. Claire also runs a nonprofit organization whose goal is to help senior professionals motivated by evidence and reason transition into high impact fields including AI. 

We discuss how deep fakes present an asymmetrical power dynamic and some mitigations we can put in place including data trusts - a collective to put the data back in the hands of users. We also ponder the use of simulacras to replace dead actors and discuss whether we can resurrect dead philosophers by the use of deep learning. 

Towards the end of the episode, we surmise how chatbots develop bias, and even discuss if AI is sentient and whether that matters.

Disclaimer: The views in this episode only represent the views of the people involved in the recording of the episode. They do not represent Meta’s or any other entity’s views. 

Links:

Sabelo Mhlambi: From Rationality to Relationality: Ubuntu as an Ethical and Human Rights Framework for Artificial Intelligence Governance [link]

Kevin Roose: Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ [link]

Credits:

Produced by Talha Baig

Music by Zhao Shen

Special Thanks to Rachel, Sean, Cass and Sahar for their continued support