Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: There must also be a way for those platforms to receive input. If your system has detected some major misinformation that is being amplified in a platform, there must be a way of informing that platform. Wasim Khaled: Absolutely. The platforms are definitely on our radar as future partners. Just this Monday, Blackbird

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Two questions based on what you said. How prevalent is this kind of cyberattack on the brands today? Wasim Khaled: It is surprisingly very high. It’s amazing that a lot of the organizations have not fully understood the impact that it has on them because they don’t have the methods to detect these

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 5)

Wasim Khaled: If you look back to the era of the Soviet Union, they weaponized propaganda and disinformation. They recently wielded it using these new tools. Again, it’s self-subscribing to propaganda. It’s the perfect system when you have polarized groups to drill in on that. I want to think about this and consider where that

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think the parallel is that cigarette smoking is injurious to health. The whole tobacco industry has agreed to it and gradually society has come to understand that. There were fewer and fewer public places that you can smoke and so on and so forth. An equivalent understanding and rejection of this kind

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to recommend how these large social media platforms should be regulated, what would you suggest? Wasim Khaled: One of the most important things is that you don’t use a sledgehammer on the entire tech industry, especially with smaller up-and-coming companies that would get squashed if you applied the same broad

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Speaking about disinformation and harmful-to-society information, the COVID misinformation is also equally dangerous.  Wasim Khaled: There’re a lot of complexities that go into the decision-making process in social media platforms where the line between freedom of speech and censorship lies. That’s going to be a contentious topic that pushes into regulation on the

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Blackbird.ai CEO Wasim Khaled (Part 1)

Fake news and misinformation is playing havoc with modern society. This conversation delves into the depths of the issues. https://www.sramanamitra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/490th-1Mby1M-Entrepreneurship-Podcast-With-Wasim-Khaled-Blackbird.ai_.mp3 Sramana Mitra: Let’s have you introduce yourself as well as Blackbird.ai.

490th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Wasim Khaled, Blackbird.ai

Wasim Khaled, CEO Co-founder at Blackbird.ai, delves into how fake news and misinformation are playing havoc with modern society.