This episode covers a lot of ground: what AI can and can't actually know, the coming population decline across advanced economies, and the UK's new social media ban for under-16s. Mark and David connect the dots between all three. Read more 👇

Our Head of Public Affairs Mark Frankel is featured in an LBC article today on the risks deepfakes pose to democracy. As Mark explains: "These tools are producing false narratives and reshaping how audiences use and access information. "The public could be misled if there are videos of politicians saying things that they are not or introducing things they aren’t." That’s why we’re calling for the current Representation of the People Bill to include stronger rules to address political deepfakes and help protect the integrity of democratic debate. https://lnkd.in/e3v3uepS

The AI BACKLASH has begun: 42% of Brits are cutting back on use A new report reveals the people who know AI best trust it least, with privacy fears driving more than four in ten of us to pull back https://lnkd.in/eeas6Tkj

Is Universal Basic Income actually a feasible solution to AI job displacement? In the latest episode of Altered Britain, Daniel Tremayne-Pitter and Mark Butcher pick apart this narrative, along with other misconceptions and concerning trends in the world of AI and employment. Is Mark right? Let us know your thoughts on UBI below💡

Baroness Kidron with a clear message to the UK government in The Times today: The Sovereign AI Fund should rule out investing in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence. Taxpayer money should not be funding exploitative AI companies. https://lnkd.in/eS2TRNzk

5 Full Fact fact checks in 6 weeks with clear conclusions because of one technical choice. SynthID In my view SynthID continues to point towards how important a commonly used open standard for verifying the use of AI in content creation will be. https://lnkd.in/eeeS5M-e https://lnkd.in/eUGDr4pz https://lnkd.in/e9At-4hc https://lnkd.in/eAVP4n_H https://lnkd.in/esW2XqCV

On today's Reality Check podcast: Some whistleblowers from the AI industry claim there is a more than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within a few years. A group of mostly Labour MPs has written to Andy Burnham calling for action on existential AI risk, while conceding there is little the British government can do about it alone. Michael Simmons speaks to John Power about the incentives behind the warnings, whether AI can realistically be regulated and why more mundane harms, from AI-written complaints flooding bodies such as IPSO to hackers using chatbots, may deserve more attention. Listen | https://lnkd.in/eDpMT6_f

The wonderful Henk van Ess has been looking at the outputs of global Fact Checking this year. His analysis suggests that about 1 in 3 claims checked (32%) involves AI-generated or AI-manipulated content. Sobering. https://lnkd.in/evVDZzce

As if things couldn’t get any worse for scandal plagued KPMG …. The audit firm has just been caught out citing bogus case studies on AI adoption – based on AI hallucinations. https://lnkd.in/dd8d2snN via @ft

Earlier this year, Professor David Taylor-Robinson received an unexpected email from a colleague: “Are you aware you are on TikTok?” He wasn’t. He isn’t on TikTok. But an AI-generated deepfake of him was. A series of social media accounts have been using AI-generated deepfakes of real doctors and academics—including Professor Taylor-Robinson—to promote health products with bogus endorsements. The result is a growing wave of AI-driven misinformation that risks damaging the reputations of those it impersonates, and could lead to people making decisions about their health based on fake claims. When anybody with an internet connection can make videos showing any expert saying anything they want, could this be the beginning of a global struggle to keep track of who the real experts are? Our new investigation—published exclusively by The Guardian, uncovers the scale of the problem. https://lnkd.in/ePhA4jDJ