The convening addressed the question: “As AI becomes more sophisticated and its techniques more accessible, how can organizations across technology, media, civil society, and the academic research community work together to coordinate strategies around the emergent threat of AI-generated mis/disinformation?”
Vote for our panel on deepfakes and synthetic media, how they can be used maliciously, and how we can detect and stop them!
WITNESS is excited to have a meet up proposal in the running for South by Southwest 2018! Help our meet up, Citizen Journalists and Activists for Human Rights, get in by voting and sharing!
Our Program Director Sam Gregory joins HRWIFF’s panel on the emergent uses of virtual reality in human rights storytelling and advocacy.
WITNESS will be attending RightsCon in Silicon Valley. Here are some of the panels and speaking engagements we’re participating in.
WITNESS Program Director, Sam Gregory, recently participated in a panel discussion covered by the Columbia Journalism Review on how news outlets and audiences are dealing with increased access to graphic footage via our digital, social interactions.
WITNESS’ work has recently been featured in a number of Spanish-language press outlets including La Prensa (Mexico), RompevientoTV (Mexico) and La Prensa-El Diario (USA).
Our panel proposal for SXSW 2016 is live! Cast your vote for “Live! Camera! Action!: Livestreaming That Matters” and hear more about the future of livestreaming technology and human rights.
WIRED magazine recently published an article by WITNESS’ Program Director, Sam Gregory, on how mobile livestreaming is changing the very nature of human rights witnessing.
WITNESS staff has been on the move the last several weeks, traveling around the world to conduct trainings and participating in international human rights events.