Dead Actors, Deepfakes & Human Sacrifice
From They Might Be Self-Aware by Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers
April 9, 2026 · 34 min · Episode 172
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of AI deepfakes on trust and accountability in society.
AI deepfakes are fooling job interviewers, world leaders can't prove they're alive, a grandmother went to jail over a facial recognition false match, and a dead Val Kilmer just got cast in a new movie, so Hunter and Daniel ask whether anything on a screen can be trusted anymore. Daniel's proposed solution to the AI accountability crisis: bring back Aztec-style human sacrifice, which is now the official position of this show.
People in this episode
Hosts: Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers
Topics covered
- AI deepfakes
- job interviews
- facial recognition
- human sacrifice
- trust in media
Keywords
- deepfakes
- AI
- job interviews
- facial recognition
- human sacrifice
- Val Kilmer
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