Banning Deepfakes, Threats of AI

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23                                                                                                                            PROGRAM #10517 12:00 PM PT

Banning Deepfakes, Threats of AI. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed landmark legislation to ban deepfakes and other deceptive digitally altered or created images, audio, or video recordings meant to give the impression that a candidate or elected official did or said something they did not do or say. A news reporter explains and an academic analyst comments on this law and on the new threats to US democracy from the use of artificial intelligence and the spread of misinformation among Latino communities.

Guest: Dr. Roberto Mejias, Professor of Computer Information Systems, Colorado State University at Pueblo-CSU Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.

Texas Purged One Million from Voter Rolls. Texas removed over one million people from its voter rolls since Republican legislators passed a sweeping voter suppression law three years ago. The Republican governor said the people who’ve been removed include voters who moved out of Texas, are deceased or are noncitizens. Are legitimate voters among them?

Guest: Juan Proaño, CEO, League of United Latin American Citizens-LULAC, Miami FL.

Texas Targets Mail-In Voter Registrations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating his fight against some of the most populous and largely Latino counties in the state, threatening Bexar, Travis and Harris counties for sending out unsolicited voter registration applications. Paxton claims their mailing of voter registration forms would either “confuse” noncitizens about their eligibility to vote, or “induce” them to fraudulently register. Civil rights leaders react to recent developments on the legal clash.

Guest: Manuel Garza, Field Director, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, San Antonio, TX.

Photo: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay

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