The economic cost of disinformation | Mike Speirs, Customer Director | Faculty

How should we respond to the risks posed by AI and disinformation? And can AI be used defensively? In this episode, Simon sits down with Mike Speirs, Customer Director at Faculty, who is working to transform defense and national security capabilities through AI. The two discuss the impact of corporate disinformation, in addition to political disinformation, and the importance of digital literacy. 

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Key Quotes:

“We are moving away from the space where you'll look at an image and you'll see someone with six fingers. That's pretty easy for someone to pick up. That kind of window of opportunity of being able to pick up on those types of really obvious tells of a synthetic image is starting to close out.”

“Most people are unaware that there is also a huge economic cost of disinformation. It targets corporations as well as countries.”

Timestamps: 

(02:14) Unpacking the different types of deepfakes 

(07:57) The cost of corporate disinformation 

(11:34) How should we respond to the risks posed by deepfakes and disinformation? 

(14:07) Is watermarking effective? 

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Links:

Mike Speirs on LinkedIn
Simon Horswell on LinkedIn

The Fraud Lab

Onfido’s Identity Fraud Report 

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