MIT Technology Review has the article Congress wants to protect you from biased algorithms, deepfakes, and other bad AI.

There will likely soon be another bill to address the spread of disinformation, including deepfakes, as a threat to national security, she says. Another bill introduced on Tuesday would ban manipulative design practices that tech giants sometimes use to get consumers to give up their data.

Maybe this isn’t the most important thing in this article, but I think it shows a worrisome naivete.

I looked up Edward Bernays in Google, and found an article. Maybe it has taken the threat of AI to awaken people to what has been going on since at least as far back as WW I. I found the article Propaganda by Edward Bernays (1928).

The TED video Facebook’s role in Brexit – and the threat to democracy makes some excellent points, but also seems to lack any knowledge of Edward Bernays, and what he stood for. (I wrote the previous sentence after having been handed the last 6 minutes of this video. As I pasted the video here, and started to watch it again, I found out what I was was missing in the extremely important first 9 minutes.)