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The next meeting of the STOA Panel will be held on Friday, 15 October 2021, from 11.00 to 12.30. This meeting will feature a presentation of the studies on artificial intelligence for biometrics and deepfakes: human rights, ethical principles and policy options. The meeting will be webstreamed. The link will be published below.

Please see the documents available below.

Deepfakes are hyper-realistic videos created through artificial intelligence techniques. They present many possibilities, but also dangers. Malicious use includes fraud, extortion and political disinformation. The impacts of such misuse can be financial, psychological and reputational. While the technology itself is legal, some malicious uses are not, and a combination of legal and technical measures may be mobilised to limit their production and dissemination.

STOA's new Partnership on AI with the OECD's Global Parliamentary Network (GPN) was formally launched on 2 December 2020 during an online meeting of the GPN's Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, which was organised with STOA. A video was also jointly produced to introduce the partnership.