Generative AI and the End of Trust

A conversation with Jeff Hancock, co-director of the CPC and director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. The session will be moderated by Nate Persily. This session is part of the Spring Seminar Series, a series spanning April through June, hosted at the Cyber Policy Center with the Program on Democracy and the Internet. The impact of recent AI advancements has massive implications for trust in human interactions. There is not only a growing role of AI in financial decision-making, risk assessment, and fraud detection, but the introduction of generative AI will challenge the maintenance of trust and accountability in an increasingly AI-mediated world. In this talk, Hancock will cover recent research on how people perceive and detect AI in human communication, and how generative AI is likely to undermine trust in several important human domains.