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Dave Smith

Ex-Palantir turned politician Alex Bores says AI deepfakes are a 'solvable problem' if we bring back a free, decades-old technique

Alex Bores stands near a window in the Capitol building (Credit: Will Waldron / Albany Times Union—Getty Images)

New York Assemblymember Alex Bores, a Democrat now running for Congress in Manhattan’s 12th District, argues that one of the most alarming uses of artificial intelligence—highly realistic deepfakes—is less an unsolvable crisis than a failure to deploy an existing fix.

“Can we nerd out about deep fakes? Because this is a solvable problem and one that that I think most people are missing the boat on,” Bores said on a recent episode of Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, hosted by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway.​

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