First, it was an image of the Pope. Shortly followed by a photo of former US President Donald Trump physically resisting arrest by half a dozen police officers. Two examples of images that went viral around the world of events that never happened. Sanjana Hattotuwa is one of New Zealand's leading experts on disinformation online and is part of the Disinformation Project research group. He and his colleagues are increasingly concerned about the lack of checks and balances around this ever-evolving technology that allows millions of people around the world free and open access to tools that can create hyper-realistic images from a few lines of text.

Long before Meg Mitchell founded the Ethical AI team at Google in 2017, she loved Boggle, the classic game where players come up with words from random letters in three minutes or less. Looking back at her childhood Boggle-playing days, Meg sees the game as her early inspiration to pursue studying computational linguistics. "I always loved identifying patterns, solving puzzles, language games, and creating new things," Meg says. "And Boggle had it all. It was a puzzle, and it was creative."