Realistic Fake Videos Created by AI Raise Concerns about AI Ethics and Governance

A new video-editing AI has been found to create realistic deepfakes of former President Barack Obama, raising questions about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence. This incident underscores the importance of responsible AI development and governance, as well as safeguards to prevent such incidents in the future.

Matched TAIM controls

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

MAP 1.3 — similarity 0.536, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.2 — similarity 0.535, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.7 — similarity 0.532, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/39

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.