- EU AI Act: Ensuring Rights, Disclosure and Meaningful Protections in the General Purpose AI Code of Practice WITNESS expresses concern regarding the changes in the EU AI Act’s third draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. These modifications impact transparency, risk assessments and copyright, and undermine fundamental rights.
- AI, Disinformation and the Battle for Truth: How Ghana’s 2024 elections exposed the new age of political deception Disinformation and deepfakes in Ghana’s elections exposed a new age of political deception, WITNESS responded by connecting local journalists with our Deepfakes Rapid Response Force and developing tactics for fortifying community truth.
- Deepfakes and Digital Abuse: Dismantling Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence To address the pressing problem of TFGBV, WITNESS has submitted recommendations to the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee as part of its study on TFGBV.
- Tomorrow’s Great Digital Divide: Content With or Without Provenance In a world rife with distrust of information and disinformation, tracing the source and history of the media we consume –its provenance– can inform our trust. But the reality is a significant portion of online content will always exist without traceable provenance. How do we prepare for these challenges and best mitigate potential risks and harms?
- French AI Action Summit: Critical Information Actors Must Be Centered in Public Interest AI The 2024 election year began by highlighting fears of AI’s profound societal impact on information ecosystems and ended with post-election narratives downplaying concerns about AI as exaggerated. This ignored a key truth: those most affected by AI shortcomings and harms—particularly in underserved regions and among critical frontline information actors —were overlooked, and opportunities for them […]
