The Human Zero Day Series | Ep1164: Shirin Anlen: Building Trust in AI Media

Shirin Anlen traces her path from interactive storytelling to safeguarding human‑rights evidence at WITNESS. She explains how today’s scale, personalization, and ease of manipulation fuel “reality apathy,” empowering leaders to dismiss inconvenient truths as “AI.” Beyond any single tool, she argues for equitable standards, privacy‑aware provenance, usable detection, and media literacy that fits real newsroom and fact‑checking workflows—especially outside well‑resourced markets. The episode challenges tech and policy teams to treat trust as infrastructure and to involve the global majority in designing it.