Continuing the special program of discussions on topics of great relevance to society in this year of important transformations for the country, the Museum of Tomorrow promotes a debate on Artificial Intelligence and fake news. The event will take place on April 13, Friday, starting at 11 am, here in the Auditorium of the Museum of Tomorrow.
With the mediation of journalist Gilberto Dimenstein and support from important institutions such as ESPM, Aos Fatos and Catraca Livre, The debate will bring together communicators, artificial intelligence experts and journalists specializing in fact-checking. Among them: Pedro Dória, information technology columnist for Estadão, O Globo and CBN. Also in the debate, Rodrigo Helcer, CEO of Stilingue, specialized in artificial intelligence; Tai Nalon, director of Aos Fatos, specialized in fact-checking; Maria Elisabete Antonioli, coordinator of the journalism course at ESPM.
The event is part of the launch of the ReVer Project (Truth Network), which brings together media outlets, academic entities, technology companies and some of the main civil society organizations (OAB, for example).
On this occasion, the following will be presented: robô Fátima, developed by Brazilians to help combat lies on the internet - this robot won a prize of R$100,000 from Catraca Livre in partnership with Instituto SEB de Educação and support from Microsoft.
The chosen name comes from “FactMa”, an abbreviation of “FactMachine”. Scheduled to start operating in May on Twitter and Facebook, the Fátima bot will monitor tweets with links to false or distorted news and information and respond with verified information. This means that every Twitter profile that shares false information will automatically receive a response from the profile. @fatimabot, automatically operated by Aos Fatos, a link to the fact-checking related to that tweet. According to its creators, this is a "guerrilla fact-checking" strategy, whose objective is to combine the production of quality journalism and the use of tools already used by profiles that promote misinformation on the social network. On Facebook, it will respond when the user wants to know if a certain piece of news is fake.