Anya Schiffrin
Senior lecturer in international and public affairs and faculty co-director of the Technology Policy and Innovation Concentration at Columbia SIPA, researching policy responses to AI-enabled scams and co-author of the report discussed in the episode.
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Apr 3, 2026 • 32min
Siliconsciousness: The Epidemic in Deepfake Financial Scams and Potential Cures
Alice Marwick, research director at Data & Society who studies online deception, and Anya Shiffrin, Columbia SIPA policy expert on AI-enabled scams, unpack AI-driven financial fraud. They explore deepfakes beyond video, how scams are personalized and scaled, platforms’ roles in the scam pipeline, regulatory duty-of-care ideas, reporting gaps, and simple steps people can take to avoid being duped.
Mar 13, 2026 • 36min
How to Regulate Deepfake Financial Fraud
Anya Schiffrin, Columbia SIPA tech policy co-director who led regional consultations, and Alice Marwick, Data & Society research director studying online misinformation. They map industrialized deepfake financial fraud, trace the scam supply chain and platform ad roles. They discuss telecom and banking interventions, cross-border organized crime challenges, and policy ideas like watermarking and advertiser KYC.
