Panel
- Marcus Beard: former head of the UK Government’s misinformation monitoring during the height of the pandemic. He’s now a Digital, Disinformation & A.I. expert and leads the communication company Fenimore Harper, which recently launched a report discussing the tsunami of deepfake images of the UK PM.
- Lisa Forte: Cyber Security Expert and partner at Red Goat Cyber Security and BCS Fellow.
- Professor of Digital Rights Andy Phippen, an online harms expert and also a BCS Fellow.
- James Woodward – Director of Communications, BCS.
- Hannah Perry, the Lead Researcher at CASM, the digital policy unit at Demos. She leads Demos’s information ecosystem programmes with an interest in how our democratic systems, institutions and cultures evolve in a digital age.
- Lord Clement-Jones CBE: former Chair of the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Select Committee and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. He is a Liberal Democrat Peer and their spokesman for Digital in the House of Lords.
Synopsis
April’s Policy Jam will reveal the results of our latest BCS members survey into the likely impact of Deepfakes on the General Election later this year.
How can voters tell what’s genuine in an era of AI-generated content, impressive looking – but biased – ’news‘ websites and social media bots? How concerned are IT professionals and what solutions to do they support?
There’s also growing mistrust of mainstream media. So, how do political parties navigate this?
Join us to find out more at midday on Wednesday April 24.
About BCS Policy Jams
BCS Policy Jams are one way we engage and communicate with our community on current issues in IT, digital and tech policy and discuss how these issues intersect with the wider world.
Join the BCS policy team for a monthly forum where we discuss critical issues for our profession, our economy, our society and our democracy.
Policy Jams are held monthly.
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
