00:00The former energy minister warns the public to remain vigilant and cautious,
00:06noting that scammers target the few who might fall for misleading claims.
00:11He emphasises that if an investment or opportunity sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
00:19You see the mispronunciation of the name.
00:22I am Kevin Ramnareen and that has me saying my name is Ramnareen,
00:26unless I have grown an accent overnight, which I haven't, right?
00:32And it also, you look at the lips and the movement of the lips and it's not in sync with
00:38the audio.
00:39So for most people would see it as obviously something which is fake and they would dismiss it.
00:46But as always, these AI scammers, they look for that one in a thousand person,
00:54one in five hundred person, who would be misled and who would go down the rabbit hole
00:59and put money behind these scams.
01:05Ramnareen calls for enhanced digital capacity for the country's cybercrime unit
01:10to detect and respond to these fraudulent activities effectively.
01:15There's existing legislation in Trindad on the statute books, the Computer Misuse Act and so on.
01:20But we need a specific cybercrime law in Trindad that goes further.
01:29And we also need to collaborate.
01:32Cybercrime doesn't respect borders.
01:36He says there is a need for the cybercrime bill to be returned to Parliament.
01:41There was a concern from media practitioners about the bill in its previous incarnation
01:48as being limiting freedom of speech and limiting the media's ability and so on to do its work.
01:56So I think we have to strike that balance between clamping down on the negative impacts
02:00of artificial intelligence and, of course, preserving the rights of the media.
02:05Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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