Aviv Ovadia

I was worried about the inability to trust everything we can see and hear.

And in particular, the inability to, even if you see something that's real, not being able to trust and know that that is actually real.

And we've seen pretty much every aspect of that that we worried about from scams affecting pretty much everyone, especially the elderly.

to propaganda, to just making it really costly to navigate the information environment for everyone.

The challenges around AI in our information environment run the gamut.

You know, we have the, yes, propaganda and sort of persuasive fakes and the costs around verifying things that are real.

You have financial fraud.

So it's affecting both individuals and then our institutions and slowing them down.

You have non-consensual imagery.

You have people trying to use generative AI to fill in faces of people who are masked.

And then those people, that's done incorrectly because the AI doesn't actually have enough information.

And then that leads to people being attacked.

You have just a broader slopification of the information environment.

And then you have maybe even targeted attempts that are so much more effective than they might've been before because of sort of AI feedback loops

to just get at our strongest emotions and drive people apart.

And all of that is sort of the negative side, but we can also use AI on the positive side to find common ground and create democratic institutions that are robust to the challenges that we're facing.

It really is something that makes everyone's life harder if we don't have the tools to navigate it.

And I mean, one way to think about this is the cost of creating problematic content is just so much lower.

And the cost of verifying has not gotten lower.

It's gotten higher.