{"id":379739,"date":"2026-01-20T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:50:15","slug":"call-for-ai-rules-after-fake-video-of-mayor-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379739\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for AI rules after fake video of mayor made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident has been reported to the council&#8217;s monitoring officer, although Chambers said he has not been made aware of a complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kathy Williams, the former Conservative mayor in the city, said the role was apolitical and &#8220;it&#8217;s very difficult when you&#8217;re in office to make too much about it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She wants more stringent rules around professional standards in council meetings and AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The AI thing is a new tool,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;It has its advantages, because it will help people, but it also has disadvantages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Digital Resistance is a company based in the West trying to protect people vulnerable to AI threats by delivering digital education so people can learn to spot it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Vincent, the founder, said the technology was advancing too quickly for society to keep up with what was real and what was fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There needs to be a law &#8211; especially around AI politics &#8211; that actually protects individuals in saying that politicians or people within power should not be generating this kind of content and distributing it,&#8221; Vincent said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The business owner also thinks there should be a much more regulation over publishing AI content in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident has been reported to the council&#8217;s monitoring officer, although Chambers said he has not been made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-379739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}