2025 Dartmouth AI Conference: AI Security Deepfakes and Digital Trust with Hany Farid
Hany Farid, who was recently awarded Dartmouth’s McGuire Family Prize for Societal Impact for his pioneering work in digital forensics, spoke at the 2025 Dartmouth AI Conference about deepfakes and the challenge of maintaining digital trust in the age of generative AI. Drawing on decades of research on manipulated images, video, and audio, Farid explains why synthetic media is becoming harder to detect and what the rise of AI-generated content means for misinformation, fraud, and the future of trustworthy information online.