A Fast Company Press book

The greatest threat from AI isn’t misinformation. It’s impersonation.

For most of human history, our senses were enough to tell us who was real. Now, AI can clone a voice from seconds of audio and generate a convincing face in real time. What began as a novelty has become a deepfake and identity fraud problem, and most organizations don't know it.

As founder and CEO of Nametag, an identity verification and cybersecurity company, Aaron Painter draws on insider business experience and a personal reckoning with AI deception to explain why our identity verification systems were never built for a world where anyone can be digitally replicated. Inside Deepfaked, you'll discover these key insights about AI impersonation:

• Why deepfakes are the defining cybersecurity risk of the digital age

• How identity fraud is targeting families, employees, executives, and institutions

• Why traditional authentication methods are failing and what's replacing them

• A new model for identity verification, built on proof rather than recognition

Deepfaked is not a warning against AI. It’s a roadmap for restoring trust in a world where seeing is no longer believing.