Fake by Default: How to Prove What's Real in the Age of AI

Fake by Default: How to Prove What’s Real in the Age of AI? Session language: English. If any image, voice or document can be generated in seconds, how do we still prove what’s real? For decades, a photograph, an audio recording or an email was treated as evidence. Today, any content can be generated or manipulated in seconds, and the burden of proof has shifted: digital content is now considered fake until proven otherwise. This creates a dual challenge. On one side, fraud using deepfakes and synthetic documents that look authentic. On the other, the “liar’s dividend”, where genuine evidence is dismissed as “AI-generated”. Gilberto Torres — Chief Data Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilberto-torres/

Halan Borges — Co-Founder DolutechAI https://www.linkedin.com/in/halanborges/

Paulo Pinto — CEO XKONSULTING https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauloppinto/

Brian Long — CEO Summit Cognitive https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcl23/

Art Linkov — CEO stealth startup https://www.linkedin.com/in/art-linkov/ Together, we’ll discuss:

• How to ensure authenticity, integrity and chain of custody of digital content
• What courts, companies and investigators can still trust as evidence
• How deepfake fraud and the “liar’s dividend” are changing risk and compliance
• The opportunities this opens for startups focused on trust, forensics and verification This is not a conversation about fear of AI. It’s about building the tools, processes and standards that let us trust again in a world where seeing is no longer believing. 📅 11 November 2026 🕚 11:30–12:30 📍 Portugal Tech Week Palace — Palacete Gomes Freire, Lisbon Organised by Cybertech Acceleration with 351 Portuguese Startup Association. T&C for Visitors