Recently, Brad Smith, current president of Microsoft, made frightening revelations about the artificial intelligence (AI).
Among his statements, he mentioned that “deep fakes” are his biggest concern in this regard.
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Basically, this is content that looks real but is totally fake. According to him, there is a great possibility that this technology could be used maliciously.
For him, there needs to be measures for people to know when a photo or video is real or if it was created by AI.
The danger of “deep fakes”
Smith emphasized the need to combat “deep fakes”, focusing on concerns about foreign cyber influence activities. He refers to actions already taken by nations such as Iran, China and Russia.
According to him, it will be necessary to “address the issues related to deep fakes”. The kinds of actions already taken by the governments of Russia, China and Iran are what concerns him most when it comes to foreign cyber influence operations.
AI needs to be regulated
Microsoft's president also defended the licensing of important AI technologies and the application of requirements to protect different security issues such as physical security, cyber security and security national.
Smith also called for the creation of modernized export restrictions to prevent the theft or use misuse of AI models, which may go against export control regulations of an country.
Smith suggested that AI-powered model makers implement a “Know Your Customer” approach to increase transparency and make it possible to identify altered videos.
Such a system would allow monitoring of how AI is used and enable users to identify the source of material produced by AI. Brad Smith also emphasized that "the government must act more quickly".
Indeed, some legislation is being explored in the United States Capitol and possibly focuses on how AI can endanger the life or people's livelihoods, including in the banking and medical sectors.
Meanwhile, others are advocating for regulations to ensure that AI is not used in a discriminatory way or to violate human rights.