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In this eye-opening 23-minute keynote from FICC 2025, explore how AI can be leveraged to combat misinformation with Aljoscha Burchardt, a principal researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Discover innovative approaches to support journalists, fact-checkers, and creative professionals in an era overwhelmed by information overload and AI-generated content. Learn about the News Polygraph project—Germany's largest R&D initiative on disinformation—which employs multimodal AI tools for fact-checking, deepfake detection across text, image, audio, and video, understanding content provenance, and providing real-time decision support for news workflows. Gain valuable insights into how Large Language Models can unintentionally spread bias, the importance of human oversight and explainable AI, methods for building databases of known facts and fakes, and strategies for achieving an "equilibrium of weapons" against synthetic media and information warfare. Burchardt, who also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute and Deputy Chairman of the Berlin Scientific Society, brings his expertise from serving on the German Parliament's AI commission to this crucial discussion at the intersection of AI, media, journalism, ethics, and information security.
