Deepfake videos of Sir Keir Starmer have been posted on the first day of Labour Party conference in a move that underlines the threat posed by deepfake technology and AI in UK politics. The fake video of the Labour leader emerged on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday morning as senior figures and party activists gathered in Liverpool. A deepfake usually involves an image or video in which a person or object is visually or audibly manipulated to say and do something that is fabricated.
Dame Wendy Hall, one of the world's leading computer scientists, issued a stark warning in an interview with Sky's Beth Rigby in which she said AI will threaten UK democracy ahead of upcoming elections here and the United States. Speaking on Beth Rigby Interviews... Dame Wendy Hall said AI's ability to damage democracy should be more of an immediate concern than any existential threat posed by the technology.