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Make progress on the AI Lab 04 on Voice Cloning before attempting this writing exercise. (You don't have to complete it first).

Use the questions below to choose a topic about AI ethics.

Consider the Warren Buffett voice cloning demonstration.

How does this compare to the unjust enrichment lawsuit against the estate of the actor Peter Cushing in the Week 01 reading?

$25million lost in AI-generated video call fraud

What safeguards if any should govern the right to voice clone actors or public figures from freely available recordings on the internet?

What thoughts or feelings do you have right now, before hearing your synthesized voice?

Should you have the right to synthesize your own voice? What are possible advantages or misuses of it?

Photographs, video and audio recordings are technologies that changed the way we remember loved ones who have died. Should family members have the right to create AI simulated personalities of the deceased?

If generative AI allows us another way to interact with a personality of a person in the past, how does this compare with historical re-enactors, or movies depicting fictional events with real people?

After all of us have been forced to spend time in isolation, or near-isolation, as the result of the pandemic, I believe we all have a newfound understanding of the distinction between human interaction that's being rendered digitally and the one experienced digitally. I've heard there is staggering evidence that we respond, in certain cases, just as well from human interactions over the phone or video calls. Still, the experience I share with so many other people is that there is something intangible and evidently indiscribable that couldn't be captured in those formats, and that this was a huge loss. Nonetheless, it's undeniable that these are the formats we're forced to receive much, if not most of our information. I'd speculate that for as long as there has been written word, there's also been libel. When photography became available to the masses, people would jump - capturing images of themselves floating in midair. Audiences were outraged when audio began being taped instead of live broadcasted, when laugh tracks were produced instead of on-air laughter. We've always been exposed to false media.