Fourth expert meeting: Deepfake news – Artificial intelligence and disinformation as a multilateral policy challenge
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This roundtable aims to look at the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays in the spread of disinformation.
Technologies like AI and particularly machine learning clearly present both benefits and risks. They enable malicious actors to generate and amplify disinformation at scale. Yet, they can also be potential tools to combat it, offering methods to analyze and detect falsities as well as for fact-checking, contextualizing and disseminating accurate information.
In today’s digital ecosystem, the right to seek, receive and impart information is interposed by large online platforms that act as gatekeepers, who rely heavily on AI to shape and arbitrate our online information spaces. AI tools are deployed by such platforms to help them demote and remove potentially harmful falsities, to address disinformation and misinformation online. Yet, the very same platforms also use AI to enhance user engagement. These technologies then may also tend to amplify controversial, sensational and deceptive content.
This roundtable will also discuss the broader sociotechnical context of online disinformation, and safeguards needed for freedom of expression and media pluralism. It will attempt to determine good practices and provide recommendations from the RFoM.
Livestream - Tuesday, 7 December, 13:30-16:30 (CET)
Russian interpretation livestream
English Channel