
Cybersecurity
Why detecting dangerous AI is key to keeping trust alive in the deepfake era
As January's $25.5m deepfake fraud incident highlighted, detecting dangerous AI is not simply a technical challenge, it's vital to preserving public trust.
Ben Colman is Co-Founder and CEO of Reality Defender, an award-winning deepfake detection platform that helps enterprises and governments flag fraudulent users and content. Over the past 15 years, Colman has scaled multiple companies at the intersection of cybersecurity and data science. Prior to founding Reality Defender, he led cybersecurity commercialization at Goldman Sachs and held a role at Google. He holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College.