Tuesday, December 30, 2025

How Deepfakes Could Lead to Doomsday | Foreign Affairs

America’s Nuclear Warning Systems Aren’t Ready for AI - Erin D. Dumbacher
  • Yet AI poses another insidious risk to nuclear security. 
It makes it easier to create and spread deepfakes—convincingly altered videos, images, or audio that are used to generate false information about people or events. 
And these techniques are becoming ever more sophisticated. 
  • A few weeks after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a widely shared deepfake showed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky telling Ukrainians to set down their weapons; in 2023, a deepfake led people to falsely believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted state television to declare a full-scale mobilization...

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