End Deepfakes

• Context and Challenge

  Deepfake technologies are rapidly emerging, creating new risks for harassment, disinformation, and student safety in schools. Despite the urgency, there was no centralized, trusted resource to help educators, policymakers, and school leaders understand and respond to deepfake threats. Existing guidance was fragmented, technical, and inaccessible for most K-12 stakeholders.

• Key Decisions and Actions

  Opportunity Labs rapidly convened experts across law, tech, and education to create a public, actionable, and sustainable digital hub. The goal: empower schools to prevent harm, educate students, and respond effectively when incidents occur.

  • Rapid Cross-Sector Convening: Engaged legal, technical, and education experts to identify gaps and best practices.

  • Technical Build: Led the design and implementation of a lightweight, flexible platform that could scale nationwide.

  • Resource Curation: Focused on plain-language guidance, toolkits, and teaching materials to ensure accessibility.

  • Trust & Credibility: Balanced neutrality with actionable recommendations, ensuring adoption by schools.

  Technical & Fieldbuilding Components

  • Built collaborative network features enabling districts to share policies and best practices.

  • Developed resource libraries and incident reporting workflows with scalability in mind.

  • Modeled a process for multi-stakeholder digital interventions in emerging technology crises.

• Outcomes

  • Launched the first national, cross-sector hub for deepfake guidance in K-12 education.

  • Created a framework for ongoing updates, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge sharing.

  • Positioned schools to integrate digital literacy and AI ethics into curriculum and policy.

• Lessons Learned

  • Speed and credibility matter in emerging tech crises; early, accessible intervention shapes field norms.

  • Cross-sector convening requires translating technical, legal, and ethical perspectives for diverse audiences.

  • Trust is built by acknowledging uncertainty, providing clear guidance, and enabling peer networks.

• My Role

  Technical Implementation and Product Strategy (2025)

  • Led product strategy and implementation for EndDeepfakes.org.

  • Convened parents, school leaders, technologists, and legal scholars to create the first national hub on Deepfake harms in K-12 schools.