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When AI can fake reality, who can you trust?We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss reality, says technologist and human rights advocate Sam Gregory. What happens to democracy when we can't trust what we see? Learn three key steps to protecting our ability to distinguish human from synthetic — and why fortifying our perception of truth is crucial to our AI-infused future.

TED Talk 'When AI can fake reality, who can you trust?' 2023

Why Dictators Love AI & How To Fight Back

Life with Machines with Baratunde Thurston, June 2025

Acceptance speech for 2024 inaugural Peabody Global Impact Award

Peabody Awards 2024

Deceptive AI Video: what to know about creation, usage, guardrail and regulation

International Journalism Festival 2025

Detecting AI deception in the real world: lessons learned from the experts

Panel discussion at the International Journalism Festival 2025

Fortifying Truth, Trust and Evidence in the Face of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology

Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice, Yale Law School 2025

Deepfakes for Good or Bad?

AI for Good Summit 2025

House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing 2023

Senate Commerce Subcommittee Hearing 2023

Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam GregoryThe TED AI Show · Episode

PopTech 2024

AI: Deception, Trust and Truth?

Fortifying the Truth: Resilient witnessing in the face of human rights abuses, distrust and deepfakes

(MIT Bearing Witness Conference Keynote October 2022)

re:publica 2024: Deepfakes - real danger or overblown hype?

re:publica Berlin 2025

Deepfakery! In Conversation with Joshua Glick, Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine

MIT Open Doc Lab, 2021

2023 Trusted Media Summit Keynote

'Prepare, Don't Panic for AI' webinar, 2023

Deepfakes: It's Not What It Looks Like @360 O/S

Trust, Truth and Deepfakes

PAI Partner Forum

The Rapidly Evolving AI Landscape 2024

Authenticity and Human Rights: Getting It Right

Content Authenticity Initiative Symposium 2023

Content Authenticity Initiative Symposium 2023

2023 Trust and Safety Professionals Association Opening Keynote: Generative AI, Human Rights, Deepfakes and You

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