Sample profiles and quotes

United States
Forbes.
Generative AI Is About To Reset Everything, And, Yes It Will Change Your Life
I discuss the impacts of generative AI and governance of it. (880K+ views)
April 7, 2023
New York Times (Hard Fork Podcast).
Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?
I talk about how we can govern and align AI using democratic processes, including at global scale, building on the ideas of "platform democracy" through citizen assemblies and "generative CI". I back this up with concrete examples of transnational and global deliberations run by the EU and by Meta (Facebook), and of the UN using AI to support such governance in wartorn Libya. (Starts ~28 min in.)
December 9, 2022
The Atlantic.
We Haven’t Seen the Worst of Fake News
December 20, 2022
Platformer.
To build trust, platforms should try a little democracy
"Ovadya proposed a method by which tech platforms could resolve tricky policy questions in a way that builds trust among users, rather than undermine it. He calls it 'platform democracy,' and it effectively takes some of the deliberative democracy techniques that have been used with some success around the world in recent years and applies it to companies like Facebook."
June 14, 2022
The New York Times.
America’s Tech Billionaires Could Help Protect the Election. If They Wanted To.
"Mr. Ovadya was one of the people who suggested thinking bigger about tech’s influence. He’s a thoughtful critic [...] who also wants to incentivize the industry to make systemic changes."
September 22, 2020
The Atlantic.
The Era of Fake Video Begins
April 8, 2018
BuzzFeed News.
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
Dystopian overview of where we could be headed if we do nothing. Millions of views; translated across multiple languages.
February 12, 2018
United Kingdom
The Economist.
Could deepfakes weaken democracy?
October 22, 2019
Germany
Jetzt (Süddeutsche Zeitun).
Aviv Ovadya warnt vor der "Infokalypse"
May 6, 2018
Brazil
Australia
ABC News Australia.
Can you tell a fake video from a real one
September 26, 2018
India
The Week.
Facebook saga poses questions on social media credibility
Quotes on tradeoffs of privacy, security, portability in the largest circulated English news magazine in India.
March 29, 2018
Japan
Interviewed for both the Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper with the largest circulation in the world) and Mainichi; both published in summer 2018.

Broadcast

Marketplace (Broadcast on NPR Morning Edition).
Red teaming systems like GPT-4 is not enough
How we can protect public goods from AI advances and how governance via citizen assemblies can help.
April 7, 2023
WNPR.
The Truth About Lies
March 7, 2019
KQED (Silicon Valley NPR station) & BBC.
Facebook's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Spoke about the distortion of reality, and what Facebook can do going forward.
September 5, 2018
CNBC.
Interviewed live for seven minutes about the congressional tech hearings and the future of misinformation.
September 5, 2018
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The fight against 'deepfake' videos includes former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul
The top radio show in Canada, with 2 million listeners.
July 20, 2018
Op-eds
WIRED.
Red Teaming Improved GPT-4. Violet Teaming Goes Even Further
About how reducing harmful outputs isn't enough. AI companies must also invest in tools that can defend our institutions against the risks of their systems—and governence.
March 29, 2023
OneZero.
Platforms Are Still Flying Blind When It Comes to Societal Impact — Better Metrics Could Help
Shows how we can use metrics to better understand how platforms are impacting people and changing over time.
January 10, 2021
MIT Technology Review.
Making deepfake tools doesn’t have to be irresponsible. Here’s how.
Provides guidance for synthetic media tool developers, demonstrating how they can mitigate the potential for misuse. Suggests actions that academia, industry, government, media, and funders can take to incentivize this.
December 12, 2019
Bloomberg.
How to Stop Misinformation
An approach to threading the needle of privacy/encryption and protection against misinformation, focusing particularly on the context of India and WhatsApp.
January 25, 2019
Harvard Business Review.
Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?
Why the business community should care about “deep fakes”, and why we all need to work together on mitigation.
November 8, 2018
The Washington Post.
Opinion : What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself.
High level overview of the societal impacts of advances in audio and video manipulation (“deep fakes”), and what can be done about it.
February 22, 2018
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This is just a sampling of hundreds of articles. Other US coverage includes Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Nieman Lab, and the MIT Technology Review. Other countries with coverage include Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Chile, Columbia, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, Spain, and Switzerland.