Climate Action Group Posted Deepfake of Belgian Prime Minister Urging Climate Crisis Action

April 14, 2020

A deepfake video purporting to show Belgium's prime minister urging climate crisis action was disseminated by a climate action group, underscoring the importance of safe and secure AI practices. This incident serves as a stark reminder of the need for trustworthy AI governance to prevent such harm. For those interested in shaping the future of AI governance, join us at HISPI Project Cerebellum to map, measure, and manage incidents like this through our TAIM framework.

JOIN US

Matched TAIM controls

Suggested mapping from embedding similarity (not a formal assessment). Browse all TAIM controls

MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.647, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.643, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.634, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.