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057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
APEC Official Side Event on TFGBV: Tackling Gender Bias in AI & the Manosphere | August 2025 | ROK
On 6 August, the UN Women Knowledge & Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea, with support from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, hosted the Official Side Event of the APEC Women and the Economy Forum.
This high-level Policy Dialogue brought together over 100 participants—including diplomats, researchers, private sector leaders, and government officials—to explore coordinated, evidence-based policy responses to emerging digital harms such as deepfake abuse, AI-enabled harassment, and misogynistic content amplified through online ecosystems like the Manosphere.
Photo: UN Women/Jaeyeon Jeong
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
Having recently read Kevin Kelly’s “The inevitable” as part of a Digital Transformation course, essentially as regards to AI and how we might adapt to the very new digital world we live in, it reminds me of how much of a challenge the VUCA world poses (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) and we are all striving in many ways to reframe the insights of that acronym into something positive. Some propose that it can be reframed and delving into what the challenges and opportunities are might allow us to do just that. (VUCA as Vision, Understanding, Clarity, Agility)
I find remnant and reminders of the reframe across the chapters of his book. There are a couple of pieces that I find especially interesting. One of them is the “democratization of arts”. It seems to me there is a lot of concerns and challenges around two aspects of this. One is how AI has been taught, using copyrighted materials across the internet. In some cases, infamously so, as Meta’s recent admission that LibGen – as well as SciHub and Z-Library was used to train their latest LLM. An admission brought on by the revealing article published by The Atlantic. These sites do contain a lot of public domain materials, but most of its content is still well within copyright limitations, and have been the subject of various legal actions for many years. Surely one of the richest companies in the world can find the economic resources to buy access to copyrighted materials. I find not doing so egregious and unmoral, as well as illegal. However, I find nothing wrong with end-users using AI to enrich their creative endeavours, whether it be visual, sound or text. The crux of this specific challenge is how the LLM was created, not what its output is being used for, which remains mostly innocuous, deepfakes and other schemes non-withstanding.
Even so, the new EU AI act has been come into effect as of the 1st of August 2024, with a phased introduction. Many provisions are coming into effect from the 2nd of August 2026. It sets out numerous requirements and limitations, mostly dealing with high-risk AI systems, and their developers and deployers. So, end-users are not really within scope.
I think it remains important to consider the democratization from a specific angle. All AI are built on enormous sets of data, to better shape it to its intended purposes. As such, all AI conform to the bell-curve of that data. It can only output something that resembles the middle of the bell-curve, and in best cases, slightly above. So, in this example, for text-creation, it can be a great equaliser. Anyone who for various reasons are below that bell-curve in English writing skills, they now have access to a tool that can easily lift their written content to the average, or perhaps even above. Imagine reports, papers, CVs, cover letters, emails, etc. As a tool it can now empower people to write with confidence, if not eloquence.
In all creative arts, AI can now put plenty within reach to those of us who earlier found them beyond us. Music, Imagery, Photography, A/V Editing skills, and more. And in doing so, increases our collective contributions and outputs onto the web. Content creation has never been easier.
And when you take that equaliser one step further, we can reach “Mixing” from “the inevitable”. As a life-long student of creativity, one of the often-misunderstood aspects of creativity is that it’s a singular endeavour, rather than group-based. Even painters, who are famous for their distinctive style, developed and refined their artistry in complex structures, social groups, communication and experimentation together in groups.
Therefore, I find the recent development of group-based AI chats models particularly intriguing. It allows a group to engage on a specific topic together, brainstorm, scrutinise, shift and improve the collaborative understanding of the topic at hand. Imagine rather than having a traditional knowledge base available, and using email to discuss that same topic. Now there is a communal sounding-board, using de-synchronised communications, to drive exploration and finding strategies and solutions together.
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
APEC Official Side Event on TFGBV: Tackling Gender Bias in AI & the Manosphere | August 2025 | ROK
On 6 August, the UN Women Knowledge & Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea, with support from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, hosted the Official Side Event of the APEC Women and the Economy Forum.
This high-level Policy Dialogue brought together over 100 participants—including diplomats, researchers, private sector leaders, and government officials—to explore coordinated, evidence-based policy responses to emerging digital harms such as deepfake abuse, AI-enabled harassment, and misogynistic content amplified through online ecosystems like the Manosphere.
Photo: UN Women/Jaeyeon Jeong
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Academic Conference on Intersection of AI and Gender: Critical Exploration of Gender Bias and TFGBV | August 2025 | ROK
(Revised) On 7–8 August, the UN Women Knowledge & Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with Ewha Womans University, hosted the Academic Conference on Intersection of AI and Gender: Critical Exploration of Gender Bias and Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence.
Over two days, global researchers, professors, practitioners, and youth examined how AI systems mirror and amplify existing inequalities, and explored both the risks of deepfake abuse and AI-enabled harassment as well as the potential of AI to detect and prevent such harms. Discussions highlighted that achieving fairness requires more than better datasets—it demands ethical, inclusive design and cross-sector collaboration between gender equality experts, philosophers, and engineers.
Photo: UN Women/Kwanju Kim
Academic Conference on Intersection of AI and Gender: Critical Exploration of Gender Bias and TFGBV | August 2025 | ROK
(Revised) On 7–8 August, the UN Women Knowledge & Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with Ewha Womans University, hosted the Academic Conference on Intersection of AI and Gender: Critical Exploration of Gender Bias and Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence.
Over two days, global researchers, professors, practitioners, and youth examined how AI systems mirror and amplify existing inequalities, and explored both the risks of deepfake abuse and AI-enabled harassment as well as the potential of AI to detect and prevent such harms. Discussions highlighted that achieving fairness requires more than better datasets—it demands ethical, inclusive design and cross-sector collaboration between gender equality experts, philosophers, and engineers.
Photo: UN Women/Kwanju Kim
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
APEC Official Side Event on TFGBV: Tackling Gender Bias in AI & the Manosphere | August 2025 | ROK
On 6 August, the UN Women Knowledge & Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea, with support from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, hosted the Official Side Event of the APEC Women and the Economy Forum.
This high-level Policy Dialogue brought together over 100 participants—including diplomats, researchers, private sector leaders, and government officials—to explore coordinated, evidence-based policy responses to emerging digital harms such as deepfake abuse, AI-enabled harassment, and misogynistic content amplified through online ecosystems like the Manosphere.
Photo: UN Women/Jaeyeon Jeong
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune
Governor Maura Healey signs “An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation” into law at the State House on June 20, 2024. The bill seeks to prevent abuse and exploitation, strengthen protections for survivors and enhance education for young people about the dangers of sexting and deepfakes. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
057
FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Park City, Utah
10:40 – 10:55 AM
PERCEPTION, LIES AND AI
Cyberspace’s hottest club? Narrative attacks. This threat vector has everything: Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, financial harm, reputational damage, and a healthy dose of computational propaganda. A leading expert on informational warfare offers a lay of the land in a year when half the world’s population will head to the polls.
Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI
Photograph by Steve Vargo/Fortune