In the current Scientific American, the computer scientist <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-an-endless-conversation-with-werner-herzog-can-teach-us-about-ai/" target=" blank">Giacomo Miceli warns</a>: “We’re about to face a crisis of trust, and we’re utterly unprepared for it.” Rapid progress in artificial intelligence machine-learning ensures that realistic deepfaked images, videos and speech are “too easy to create.” Language-generating AIs already “quickly and inexpensively churn out reams of text.” In combination, these “technologies have the capacity to inundate us with disinformation.”