Deepfake Incident Involving Belgian Prime Minister Highlights Importance of Responsible AI
April 14, 2020
A deepfake video, fabricated by a climate action group, showed the Belgian prime minister urging immediate action on the climate crisis. This AI incident underscores the need for trustworthy AI and safe and secure governance in such sensitive areas. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- extinction-rebellion-belgium
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- shophie-wilmes, belgian-government
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/201
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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