In 2024, a technology journalist walked into a studio and watched an AI system create a digital clone of her face and voice in under an hour. The clone spoke words she had never said and expressed emotions she had never felt. What once belonged to science fiction is now accessible from a smartphone. In this new reality, truth has become negotiable, and public trust increasingly fragile.
This moment captures the defining challenge of our age: technological capability is advancing faster than the ethical and institutional frameworks meant to govern it.
