Hany Farid
Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College; co-founder and Chief Science Officer at GetReal Security
Hany Farid is a Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College whose research focuses on digital forensics, forensic science, misinformation, image analysis, and human perception. He is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer at GetReal Security. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1999, spent seven years on the faculty at UC Berkeley, and returned to Dartmouth in 2026. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues with AI
Science study in which 2,190 conspiracy believers held personalized, evidence-based conversations with GPT-4 Turbo; belief fell about 20% and the effect lasted two months. Science published an expression of concern about the paper on June 11, 2026.
Why this: Also about misinformation
Dialogues with Large Language Models Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs Even When the AI Is Perceived as Human
Preregistered experiment (N = 955) in PNAS Nexus testing whether LLM debunking works because the messenger is an AI. Conversations reduced confidence in conspiracy and other unwarranted beliefs whether the model was framed as an AI tool or a human expert.
Why this: Also about misinformation
The Core Anti-Pangram Constituency Is Phony Writers
Kelsey Piper's essay in The Argument (September 6, 2026) on the backlash against Pangram, an AI-writing detector, arguing that much of the opposition comes from writers passing off AI-generated text as their own.
Why this: Also about ai detection
$25 Million and a Video Call: What the Arup Deepfake Scam Changed
Axlio Consulting article on the deepfake video-call fraud that cost engineering firm Arup $25 million, and the compliance changes that followed.
Why this: Also about deepfakes