Here’s how we got here...
Starting with Sir James Lighthill's report, AI stalls for decades, delaying progress and preventing contiuned innovation.
“Nothing suggests to me that you’ll just turnkey use this for generating deepfakes at home. Not in the short term, medium term, or even the long term,” says Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative. The reasons have to do with the high costs and technical know-how of creating quality fakes—barriers that aren’t going away anytime soon.
Tim Hwang, Director of the Harvard-MIT AI Initiative
During the 2024 elections, AI-generated misinformation was impossible to ignore. Fake news spread faster than fact-checkers, and search results felt increasingly manipulated. For the first time, millions of voters questioned whether they could trust anything they saw online.
The era of AI-driven truth begins.