# When AI can fake reality, who can you trust?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Democracy
- Speaker: Sam Gregory
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_gregory_when_ai_can_fake_reality_who_can_you_trust)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss reality, says technologist and human rights advocate Sam Gregory. What happens to democracy when we can't trust what we see? Learn three key steps to protecting our ability to distinguish human from synthetic — and why fortifying our perception of truth is crucial to our AI-infused future.

## Lectures

1. [When AI can fake reality, who can you trust?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sam_gregory_when_ai_can_fake_reality_who_can_you_trust/8e90f7742bad), 13 min (TED's player)