Artificial intelligence experts, led by Yoshua Bengio, call for deepfake regulation to mitigate risks to society. Over 400 signatories, including Steven Pinker and Joy Buolamwini, support criminalizing deepfake child pornography and penalizing creators/facilitators of harmful deepfakes.
Bengio also told that his concerns have started to take a toll on his mental health and it felt like his life’s work was no longer clear in its sense of direction