Seeing Isn't Believing: Deepfakes and Evidence in Insurance with Jeff Heasman

Deepfakes are moving fast from novelty to real-world insurance risk. Manipulated documents, photos, video and voice evidence are already potentially affecting proposals, renewals and claims, challenging how insurers assess risk, validate evidence and make decisions.

In this one-hour webinar, we will examine what deepfakes are, how someone might produce a deepfake, examples of scams involving deepfakes, and some techniques for trying to identify deepfakes.

Jeff Heasman is an expert in insurance law and behavioural sciences. He is an international trainer and consultant to leading insurance companies and brokers and has lectured at universities worldwide.

He was the first Dean of the Faculty of Law at Cavendish University in Zambia.

Jeff is passionate about bridging the gap between the insurance industry and the research and intelligence that underpin the VOX-Pol Institute.

Stuart Macdonald specialises in legal and policy responses to online violent extremism and terrorism, with particular focus on criminal law, human rights, and propaganda dissemination. His work also addresses research ethics, data protection, and research design.

He is Professor at Swansea University, a Senior Fellow at Hedayah, and Associate Fellow at ICCT.

He serves on the ECTC Advisory Network’s Steering Committee on Terrorism and Propaganda, and on GIFCT’S AI Working Group.