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‘I’m not selling crypto’: Leo Varadkar responds to deepfake ads

Speaking from Davos, the Taoiseach warned of the dangers of deepfakes and said AI technologies won’t take people’s jobs

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “I hear audio of politicians that is clearly fake and people believe it.” Picture: Getty

Emerging artificial technologies could enable people to work less in the future, but “real dangers” exist around controlling its capabilities, Leo Varadkar has said.

The Taoiseach was speaking during a panel discussion on the power of AI in politics at the World Economic Forum in Davos alongside Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs and Mustafa Suleyman, the British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur.

During a conversation around the power of emerging AI technologies, Varadkar ...