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Last month, the United Nations in partnership with the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN) launched an issue brief warning the integrity of the global information ecosystem is at a “crisis point”.
As Charlotte Scaddan, senior advisor on information integrity at the UN, explained: “Without swift action and guardrails, AI risks accelerating the breakdown of information ecosystem integrity.”
But advertisers, the UN believes, are uniquely situated to demand greater transparency and guardrails from AI companies as the likes of OpenAI turn to ad-supported business models to fund their exorbitant costs.
At our Future of Brands conference last month, Scaddan and CAN co-founder Harriet Kingaby joined host and senior reporter Jack Benjamin to unpack the report and make a direct appeal to advertisers to “make information integrity a condition of AI uptake.”
Listen now by hitting the play button or use the appropriate entry point into Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts:
Highlights
1:35: Toplines from the Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis issue brief
4:41: The power of advertisers in the global information ecosystem
7:14: Why advertisers should care about media quality
9:55: Concrete steps advertisers should take when working with tech platforms
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