A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday.Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.
The audio clip quickly spread on social media and had “profound repercussions,” the court documents stated, with the principal being placed on leave. The recording put the principal and his family at “significant risk,” while police officers provided security at his house, according to authorities. For example, the charge of disrupting school activities “only carries a 6-month sentence,” Shellenberger said.
A second opinion from a professor at the University of California-Berkley told police that “multiple recordings were spliced together,” according to the records. McCullough said authorities had entered the warrant for Darien’s arrest into the system on Wednesday night with plans to serve it Thursday morning. The chief said he didn’t know why Darien was catching a flight to Houston and did not suggest that he was trying to escape.