AI is helping spread misinformation faster. How can we deal with that?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to improve people's lives worldwide and accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, AI can also bring with it a host of unintended consequences. One of the most pernicious areas could be AI's ability to spread misinformation at a pace and scale not seen before. At the recent AI for Good Global Summit, participants from academia, the United Nations, major media outlets and the private sector gathered to discuss the unintended consequences of AI and AI-powered misinformation. To be sure, AI has provided a wealth of task-facilitating tools for media and the field of journalism, where its impact can be seen in everything from the emergence of voice-recognition transcription tools to automatically generated content.