Please RSVP by Fri Oct 9, 2026
Synthetic media is filling our feeds, news sources, and messages. Yet it is often unclear whether audio, video, and images are authentic, and much is not. Deepfakes and other inauthentic, hyper-realistic imagery are distorting public discourse in ways large and small. Government agencies are sharing deepfakes, turning citizens into props for government propaganda. Students are creating deepfake sexual imagery of mostly female classmates. The risks to democracy are profound and will be at the heart of our conversation.
Commentary following the talk
Gary Marchant. Regents and Foundation Professor of Law: Faculty Director, Center of Law, Science and innovation
About the speaker
Danielle Keats Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor of Law and Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights. She is the inaugural director of UVA Law's LawTech Center. In 2019, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on cyberstalking and intimate privacy, and she was ranked the No. 1 legal scholar among the Top 100 Law Scholars of 2024 and 2025.