The report cites media forensics expert Hany Farid saying that any finished blockchain solution for fighting deepfakes is still years away due to the complexity involved here. When we buy food from a supermarket, we generally expect it to be packaged in such a way that it can't be tampered with -- sealed plastic, stickers over the wrapper, and so on It doesn't guarantee the food will be perfect: it still might not taste good, and we can't prevent it from spoiling if you leave it out too long, but what you do know is that the package hasn't been interfered with on its way to you Faife continued: "These authenticity measures propose something similar for video: it's not an ultimate guarantee of truth and shouldn't be taken as an endorsement of the content itself, but it does allow you to confirm that a media item hasn't been tampered with on its way to you from the original point of capture."

Blockchain technology has the promise to radically transform the way society handles data as well as how AIs are trained and taught with this data. It has the potential to create a world in which control over and reward from data and AI is distributed more broadly across various stakeholders, including the people who generate the data. By using this data to train and teach AI systems, these companies have been able to create unprecedentedly effective advertising machines, with extraordinary capabilities of using the patterns mined from personal data to influence peoples' decisions about purchasing, political elections or anything else. It seems likely that no Western company, not even Google, has aggregated the amount and diversity of data that Tencent has, which also has the ability to crunch all this data for various purposes on its huge server farms. If the West is to go in the direction of greater data sovereignty, enabling individuals to control their own data and the way it's used by AIs -- and if it wants to maintain this respect for sovereignty without falling behind in the AI race -- then it will need to aggressively develop tools that allow AI to learn from data without compromising data sovereignty. Multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption and other methods allow AI tools to analyze datasets -- that exist fragmented across multiple locations, owned by multiple individuals or entities -- in a trustless way, without anyone needing to reveal their data to other parties. .

Speaking at BlockShow Asia 2019, Todalarity CEO Toufi Saliba posed a hypothetical question to the audience: "How many people would take a pill that made you smarter, knowing they can be controlled by a social entity?". "Now imagine at the same time the pill has autonomous decentralized governance so that no one can control or repurpose that pill but the host – yourself." . "It is when we are at a point of centralizing data that you can begin to think about decentralization

To help them in their decision-making and implementation, the time has come for another IoTSWC (IoT Solutions World Congress), the international flagship event that will bring together more than 350 exhibitors, including the world's leading suppliers of IoT, artificial intelligence and blockchain solutions. A new feature of this year's fair will be a specific area called IoT Solutions.Font, which will provide visibility for start-ups with original and innovative IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain based products and services that have already been tested in the market and with potential for internationalisation. This year the following will be on display: an application that measures the driver's behaviour to update the cost of insurance policies; drones, sensors and blockchain that monitor the water quality of the Volga River; an autonomous electric car equipped with a cybersecurity system that blocks attacks that jeopardize the reliability or privacy of the vehicle; a solution to check gas distribution networks, reducing energy losses and preventing fraud, a platform that combines IoT, artificial intelligence and 5G to provide predictive medical care and handle emergencies affecting the elderly and chronically ill; a system to inspect and repair wind farm turbines using drones; artificial intelligence and the cloud; an assembly assistance system which accurately guides the employees of a factory through the different steps to be performed; an application to enable farmers to view the status of their holdings in real time and facilitate their decision-making; and software based on artificial intelligence for submersible pumps used in oil wells. The latter two have their own monographic forums: Blockchain Solutions World (BSW) and AI & Cognitive Systems Forum (AI & CS) with the aim of deepening these two technologies that enhance and reinvent the internet of things capabilities.

Blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) are the most discussed topics in disruptive technologies among over 300 CEOs of leading companies around the world, reports IT Brief on August 27, 2019. Per the report, the revolutionary distributed ledger technology (DLT) as well as AI, and IoT are the three major topics in the area of disruptive technologies that were discussed by CEOs of blue-chip companies around the world, in the first quarter of 2019.