Social Media

What’s so bad about Manipulation

Everyone has some intuition about the impropriety of manipulation. But why is it really bad, morally? And how does this play out on digital platforms?

In Your Face: DeepFakes meet DeepEthics / Conference on Judaism, Jews, and AI (ASU)

The world of deepfakes – videos that look remarkably real but are frighteningly fake – have become the scourge of the internet, prompting tech companies to scramble for solutions and governments to legislate regulations. In this talk, I apply “Deep” Jewish Ethics to explain why this technological abuse is so bad, so deeply bad, that more must be done to reign it in while still allowing for the positive applications to flourish.