Deepfakes and Human Subjects Protection with Aimee Nishimura
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The use of deepfakes—a form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to create manipulated or generated images, video, and audio—is on the rise. In 2022, the U.S. military took a nearly unprecedented step by declaring its interest in deepfake technology for offensive purposes. But the Defense Department’s exploration of this technology poses privacy and ethics risks, especially with respect to human subjects research.
To unpack all of this and more, Lawfare Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio sat down with Aimee Nishimura, a Cyber Student Fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT Austin. Aimee recently published a piece on Lawfare, entitled “Human Subjects Protection in the Era of Deepfakes.” They discussed the significant dangers posed by deepfakes, how the Defense Department can support the protection of human subjects in its research on the technology, and more.
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| 1:22.4 | human subjects research is involved, what type of |
| 1:25.4 | documentation is required, what type of consent, what type of information that |
| 1:30.7 | participants would need to give meaningful consent. |
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| 1:56.0 | The use of Deep Fakes, a form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to create |
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