Women in AI: Dr. Rebecca Portnoff is protecting children from harmful deepfakes

As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch interviewed Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, who is vice president of data science at the nonprofit Thorn, which builds tech to protect children from sexual abuse. She attended Princeton University before receiving her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been working her way up the ladder at Thorn, where she has worked since 2016. She started...