Will the next James Bond be an avatar? The peril of AI and the path to transforming hope
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence could be used to fully replace actors. In fact, bands like ABBA are already employing digital avatars for “live” performances. But AI is also being used to deepfake victimizing videos, steal passwords, and manipulate politics. As Peggy Noonan writes for the Wall Street Journal, “the fate of humanity [is] in the hands of the men and women of Silicon Valley . . . . And there’s something wrong with them.”
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 5th, 2023. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.2 | In the latest Indiana Jones movie, 81-year-old Harrison Ford was de-aged 40 years by AI, artificial intelligence. |
| 0:26.2 | Accordingly, Sean Connery fans might hope that they'll see a young version of the first James Bond in the next Bond film. |
| 0:33.7 | Alas, producer Barbara Brockley has announced that while the next 007's identity is currently unknown, |
| 0:40.3 | he will not be an AI-rendered actor from the past. |
| 0:44.3 | Fans of the Swedish rock band Abba are suffering no such disappointment. |
| 0:48.3 | The group is currently making $2 million a week performing as avatars, |
| 0:54.6 | life-like digital images projected onto a screen. |
| 0:58.0 | The band Kiss now plans to do the same. |
| 1:01.1 | We can be forever young and forever iconic by taking us to places we've never dreamed of before, |
| 1:07.3 | Kiss-based player Gene Simmons said. |
| 1:09.7 | Is this a good thing? |
| 1:12.1 | Or is it just a less ominous example of a crisis that threatens us all? Teenage girls in New Jersey were recently |
| 1:17.9 | victimized by such technology when it was used to generate nude images of them that were |
| 1:23.1 | then circulated at their high school. The Department of Homeland Security is warning that deep fake |
| 1:29.1 | technology is being employed to generate hundreds of thousands of pornographic images, including |
| 1:34.7 | those of children. Fake audio is being used to steal passwords and breach financial accounts. Deep |
| 1:41.0 | fake videos are being used to manipulate political opinion and voters. Retired Army |
| 1:46.4 | General Mark Milley is warning robust space and cyber capabilities now allow adversaries to target |
| 1:53.4 | critical national infrastructure vital to our military defenses. For more on this, see my website |
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