The Future of Voice Technology - AI Translation and Ethical Concerns

The beginning of the video effectively introduces the topic of AI advances and their impact on democratic systems. It grabs the audience's attention by discussing the capability of generative AI to copy voices.
But the challenge is that our current democratic systems are frankly too slow and the AI advances are both incredibly quick and they're global One of the most terrifying and in many ways exciting applications out of generative AI is to copy our voices That's incredibly useful for translating across languages So you can have you just speaking in any language and it really sounds like you But the downside there is someone can use that same technology to just copy your voice saying anything they want We had companies in the space that were really responsible as well as one could be and they had a lot of safeguards to make it so that you really it was really hard to copy someone's voice about their consent But that all changed very recently when a number of companies just came out without doing that It's sort of like you're lowering the bar for responsibility because these new entrants are coming in because it's cheaper to not build in that extra tech and it makes it easier to use And so we can't live in a world where people keep undercutting those responsibility practices There is real risk that we are moving toward a world where people just don't have any sense of what is real And they just sort of give up on that And we've already seen that obviously in many parts of the world This sort of what I've been calling reality apathy.