Maria Ressa speaks at 2026 ASEAN Business and Investment Summit

Artificial intelligence can reproduce ‘the worst of who we are,’ says Rappler CEO and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa MANILA, Philippines – Rappler CEO and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warned that artificial intelligence deployment by the private sector has outpaced regulation and control by the government. Ressa delivered a keynote speech and joined a fireside chat on “Trust in the Age of AI,” at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Parañaque City on Sunday, November 15. She noted that because AI models scrape training material from the internet, it can reproduce “the worst of who we are.” “It can work for you the same way social media works for content creators, but it is a Faustian bargain if you do not look at the design,” Ressa said during the fireside chat, hosted by veteran journalist Karen Davila. The two-day business summit, happening on the sidelines of the 49th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits, ends on Sunday. – Rappler.com How does this make you feel? Loading