House holds hearing on "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence amid national security concerns

A story on CBS News about experts testifying before the House Intelligence Committee about the threats that “deepfake” videos and other types of artificial intelligence-generated synthetic data pose to the U.S. election system reports witnesses at today’s hearing include David Doermann, Empire Innovation professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute.

"A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on, and that's true," he said. "Personally I don't see any reason why, news does it with live types of delays, there's no reason why things have to be instantaneous, social media should instill these kinds of things to delay," he suggested.  Doermann went on, saying there are tools the social media companies could use to link verifiable audio and video together and make a decision regarding pulling it down from their respective sites "the same way we do with malware or cyber issues. We're protecting our front door,"  he said. 

Read the story here.

Articles on his testimony also appeared on BBC, CNET, Venture Beat and WCBI-TV in Mississippi.