Recent Authored Op-Eds and Commentary
Tech Policy Press, OpenAI's Sora Is Here. There Is Still Time To Prepare For The Threat Such Technologies Pose, December 2024
Tech Policy Press, Regulating Transparency in Audiovisual Generative AI: How Legislators Can Center Human Rights with Raquel Vasquez Llorente, October 2023, recommended by President Barack Obama for his AI Reading List
Nieman Lab - Predictions for Journalism 2023: Synthetic media forces us to understand how media gets made, December 2022
The Hill - Shallowfakes are rampant: Tools to spot them must be equally accessible, August 2022
The Hill - To battle deepfakes, our technologies must track their transformations, June 2022
WIRED - TikTok Must Not Fail Ukrainians, March 2022
WIRED - The World Needs Deepfake Experts to Stem this Chaos, June 2021
WIRED - Authoritarian Regimes Could Exploit Cries of Deepfakes, February 2021
Recent Media Commentary
Rest of World, What we learned from tracking AI use in global elections, April 2024
WIRED, The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected, December 2024
CBS Morning, What's Next for AI in 2025?, December 2024
CBS, Can you spot the AI impostor? The swift rise of AI celebrity endorsements, October 2024
NOVA - PBS, Can Technology Detect Deepfakes Better Than Humans Can? | NOVA | PBS. October 2024
WIRED, China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen, September 2024
India Today, Upload, undress, blackmail: AI 'nudify' apps emerge as new weapons of extortion, September 2024
Anadolu Press, "US elections: How serious of a threat is AI?" June 2024
The Atlantic, The Near Future of Deepfakes Just Got Way Clearer, June 2024
The TED AI Show, Is AI Destroying Our Sense of Reality, May 2024
The Walrus, "Deepfakes and AI Trickery Are Disrupting the Biggest Election in History" May 2024
Scientific American podcast, "The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash", May 2024
ABC News, "Video: Witness executive director says we need ‘access to the tools to detect' AI media", May 2024
ABC News, TikTok to automatically label AI-generated content, May 2024
NPR, "How to Avoid Getting Tricked Online", April 2024
Indian Express, "More than deepfakes, shallowfakes should worry everyone", March 2024
BBC Verify, "Russian TV airs fake video blaming Ukraine for Moscow attack", March 2024
Amanpour & Company, "Take on Fake:" How AI-Generated Content Is Impacting Elections, March 2024
Al-Jazeera, ‘Inflection point’: AI meme wars hit India election, test social platforms, March 2024
Nieman Lab, With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and investigate AI audio deepfakes, March 2024
Economic Times (India), Detecting Deepfakes Should Not Be the Sole Responsibilities of Platforms (interview), March 2024
The Morning Brief, AI & Elections: Deepfaking democracy, March 2024
MIT Tech Review, OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora, February 2024
Carnegie Council for Ethics, Prepare, Don't Panic: Navigating the Digital Rights Landscape, with Sam Gregory,
February 2024
TVO Screen Time Podcast, The Battle for Reality, February 2024
BBC, Fake Biden video prompts calls for Meta to label posts, February 2024
Computer Says Maybe Podcast, 2024 Elections: Is AI Going to Wreak Havoc?, February 2024
WIRED, Meta Will Crack Down on AI-Generated Fakes - But Leave Many Undetected, February 2024
WIRED, If Taylor Swift Can't Defeat Deepfake Porn Nobody Can, January 2024
Cybernews, AI-faked Biden robocall told voters to skip New Hampshire primary, January 2024
Daily Dot, Explicit AI images of Taylor Swift got 22 million views before X cracked down, January 2024
WIRED, Hulu Shows Jarring Anti-Hamas Ad Likely Generated With AI, January 2024
WIRED, The Biden Deepfake RoboCall is Only the Beginning, January 2024
Bloomberg, Facebook's Tolerance for Audio Deepfakes is Absurd, January 2024
Logically Facts, How do audio deepfakes add to the cacophony of online misinformation?, January 2024
WIRED, Generative AI Learned Nothing from Web 2.0, December 2023
The New York Times, The 2024 Election Will Be Unlike Any Other. Is the Media Ready?, December 2023
WIRED, Worried About Political Deepfakes? Beware the Spread of ‘Cheapfakes’, December 2023
Washington Post, AI fake nudes are booming. It’s ruining real teens’ lives, November 2023
The Verge, Watermarks aren't the silver bullet for AI misinformation, October 2023
WIRED - A Doctored Biden Video Is a Test Case for Facebook’s Deepfake Policies, October 2023
Poynter, As misinformation surges during the Israel-Hamas war, where is AI?, October 2023
WIRED -Slovakia’s Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy, October 2023
Al Jazeera English, People & Power, Could AI threaten democracy?, October 2023
WIRED - In a World of Fakes, Trump's Real Mug Shot Matters, August 2023
The Guardian - Humans can detect deepfake speech only 73% of the time, study finds, August 2023
The Atlantic - THE AI CRACKDOWN IS COMING: Five ways for Washington to hold Silicon Valley accountable, August 2023
The Chronicle of Philanthropy - 33 Leaders Standing up to Big Tech in the Age of A.I., August 2023
WIRED - This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them?, August 2023
AdWeek - As Gen AI Content Explodes, So Does the Need for Watermarking, August 2023
Rest of World - An Indian politician says scandalous audio clips are AI deepfakes. We had them tested, July 2023
WIRED - Big AI Won't Stop Election Deepfakes With Watermarks, July 2023
CBC Canada Politics and Press Primetime, July 2023
The New Yorker -Will Biden's Meetings with A.I. Companies Make Any Difference?, July 2023
NPR - AI-generated images are everywhere. Here's how to spot them. June 2023
Vox - What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?. June 2023
Newsmax National Report - AI-generated Deepfakes could impact elections. June 2023
The Washington Post - A tweet about a Pentagon explosion was fake. It still went viral. June 2023
Al-Jazeera English News, May 2023
Gizmodo - Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses, May 2023
PetaPixel- 'It Devalues Photographers': Amnesty Deletes AI Images after Backlash, May 2023
Vulture - Did Kendall Do a Deepfake? May 2023
ABC News - A real worry. How AI is making it harder to spot fake images, April 2023
ABC Sunday Morning, April 2023
The Washington Post - Republicans counter Biden announcement with dystopian, AI-aided video, April 2023
The Washington Post - 'Claudia’ offers nude photos for pay. Experts say she’s an AI fake, April 2023
Daily Dot - 'The train is coming off the tracks': Republicans release AI-generated ad attacking Biden April 2023
AP - FACT FOCUS: Fake Trump mug shots spread in lieu of real one, April 2023
Dazed - ‘Digital wildfire’: how deepfakes became a new frontier for global conflict, March 2023
The Washington Post -Fake images of Trump arrest show ‘giant step’ for AI’s disruptive power, March 2023
Tech Policy Podcast- Mitigating the Ethical and Legal Risks of Synthetic Media and Generative AI, March 2023
Fast Company - GPT-powered deepfakes are a 'powder keg', February 2023
The Atlantic - We Haven't Seen the Worst of Fake News, December 2023
The Wall Street Journal - China, a Pioneer in Regulating Algorithms, Turns Its Focus to Deepfakes, January 2023