if it's like a slinky that can kill $900.00 people at once darpa darpa. i wouldn't even have someone from darpa look after my cat for the weekend all right yet you think i want them. looking after our entire election system you know i come home the cat has half a head a gameboy duct taped to its. huge yard clock i don't care if the mario card theme song plays when it's. meant press really i was a true story minutes. further revealed galois has a spinoff company called free and fair protest too much that creates technology for elections and worked with microsoft to make election guard unfortunately free and fair it's connected to every form of neo con think tank government agency and large corporation there is specially in bed with the department of homeland busy security so what's wrong with that well as whitney webb details before during and after the 2016 election the department of homeland security was caught attempting to hack into state electoral systems in at least 3 states georgia indiana and idaho d.h. yes which initially denied it later responded

until that here he was the program manager of darpa's media forensics program. daniel citroen a professor of law at the university of -- cao are to the several aurals be the potential impact of deep fakes on national security and democracy. and finally mr. clint watts the distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute, a senior fellow at the gmc alliance for securing democracy and his recent scholarship as addressed social media influence operation iches welcome to you and start with you, mr. clark. >> chairman schiff, ranking member and committee members thank you for the invitation to testify about the national security threats posed by the intersection of a.i., fake content and deep fakes. what-we talking about when we discuss this subject? fundmentalityly we're talking bit digital technologies that make it easier for people to create synthetic media, video images, audio or text. people have been manipulating need where for a very long time, as you well know but things have changed recently. i think there are two fundamental reasons wh

its research enterprise, the defense advanced research projects agency, or darpa, is exploring ways todefend against the threat of deep fakes. computer scientist matt turek runs darpa's media forensics, or medifor, project. >> so, there's an heportunity for us to essentially lose all trust in images and video. >> r some of the 70 counter deep fake techniques darpa is helping nurture. >> necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. this software is designed to characterize lip movement and compare it to the audio. >> reporter: and so, when see these red bars, that means actually that sounds of the speaker are not actually consistent with the movement of the lips. >> reporter: now take a look at this video. supposedly two people sitting together. but software that determines the lighting angle on faces concludes it is a composite. >> so, it estimates a 3d model for the face, along with that 3d model, iestimates properties of the face, the reflectance properties of the face and also the lighting angles. and so, here we're primarily using

housing prices there as its highly paid employees price out other prospects of residents who go boston darpa china says the firm wants to be quote a good neighbor by supporting the construction of 15000 new homes for buyers of all incomes 3 quarters of the money will be spent converting some of google's commercial property for residential use. ask any parent children have a surprising amount of energy what if you could harness it into real energy a clever project in gone is trying to do that to the benefit of the children themselves. this is the moment they've been waiting for the pupils at this school in western ghana aren't only excited about writing the carousel they're also eager to see what happens when they do why because this is no ordinary piece of playground equipment each spin produces enough electricity to power forcing rechargeable alley d. lamps which the kids are allowed to take home with them in the evenings. no they were all given it as cues the dishes i don't get the lot that's why i didn't do my homework so this study. that is still heard is and it does he said. in. the car

some outlets report that they were balloons released earlier this week by darpa, and yet darpa, at leastas not taken official responsibility for the balloons. so, as of tonight, they are probably or possibly balloons but maybe not. it would be nice if someone clarified that. we will keep you posted. time to close out the week with a bang, and what better bang than the dan bongino news explosion. our favorite new york city cop and secret service agent is here to give us his top three news stories of the past seven days. the great dan bongino joins us tonight. >> you're lucky because i have four. it will be a nice segue from your ufo segment. apparently, some united states senators have received an actual briefing on the uso ufo phenomenon. now like you, i always wonder why this isn't a bigger story. tucker, we don't have to go all h.d. wells, "war of the worlds," there is no need for drama. but if you had some stuff flying over your country with the technology no one could explain, maybe it's kind of a bigger deal, right? maybe we should be a little more concerned.eouyb i'm just throwing

at don't remember the exact position, but he was involved in darpa and the programs being developed at the time for arpanet, which were the original for nodes of computers connected together in 1969. almost exactly 50 years ago now. that became what we now know as the internet over 30 or so years of developing. >> you refer to him as one of the godfathers of the internet. who is tim berners-lee? >> tim berners-lee is the inventor of the world wide web. of it, theot aware world wide web is technically not the internet. it is a layer on top of the internet that creates webpages and allows for pictures and videos and all of the fun things we think of when we think of using the internet. tim berners-lee invented the world wide web almost exactly 30 years ago and that was a thing that allowed the internet to eventually go mainstream. so years between the development of arpanet and the development of the world wide web, the internet was mainly used by academics and government types. it was never intended for use by common people like us. web, even though it was also developed as a tool for a

at 1st it did affect darpa aeration. then we took a number of steps and explain to our clients that it poses no actual risk to them and thankfully they believed. so there is no danger. basically we didn't lose anything so why do you think that you know you were interested whether crimea bridge construction strategically very important projects because your presence close friend and he knows you for a long time you know or because he says something else and you because of their lot of rich people in russia but somehow you got entrusted with this project why. in the one. there were not many takers to be honest some are afraid. some nearly won't be able to finish their construction the president never said really hey you come here you're going to build the bridge and if you don't well cut off your arms. or god forbid it was quite the opposite actually. asked us to consider the risks for. when i was aware of the risks for some time off shore as well like a honeypot. everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the relia

from a virgin nigeria got done germicidal darpa who's the deputy chief of party for the mercy corps community driven initiative to promote peace there look thanks for your time it strikes me from listening to our report just then that these tensions have always existed and there are some very deep seated problems but it's things like drought and climate change which you've actually almost reignited it or made it much worse. yeah yeah i think so because you know as speakers have mentioned yes this place that isn't famous had been live in secure a better player and damage have integrated themselves into its community so the ability but unfortunately the climate and the population boom and the development this community is that existed to get that have been led to move when i'm not suddenly find that some of it's because of competition. out of the resources especially from land and what that. if you look at it you know this things that are happening you know in the illest kept it where it is i think with the of our community whatever i do see that the conflict is happening there absolutely is al

david doermann was a project manager at darpa.2017, the secret defense department agency was in the process of trying to develop technology to identify manipulated video posted on social media. >> so they could target individuals, individual communities with different types of content very easily, and that's what's scary. >> reporter: lawmakers in washington believe social media companies should do more to prevent deepfake videos. the risk is the more common they become, people will have a hard time believing their eyes and ears, even when the information they are being given is real. reena. >> ninan: jeff pegues in washington. and here in new york, the n.y.p.d. is a police force shaken by suicide. the death of an officer yesterday is the third suspected suicide in just 10 days. and as kenneth craig reports, it's a growing problem, not just here, but nationwide. >> reporter: the most recent suicide, right outside the precinct on new york's staten island, was a six-year veteran of the force, 29-year-old officer michael caddy. the t

i have talked to darpa about doing work in cost-effective care and what we can do, looking at results as our goal. this is good for medicare and for everyone, if we are able to do this. caneed to do everything we to make our health care system more affordable. a big part of this is pharmaceutical prices. nearly 20% of our health care expenses. pharmaceuticals are high on the senior end. make a big difference when it comes to medicare. allow 43 million seniors to be able to negotiate prices. >> two more questions. let me take the young lady in the back. are you a student? >> no. i work with the community health centers. i wanted to pick up on what you said about the soybean farmers. and rural care, especially mentally health care. the number of people taken care of could be doubled. i wanted to get your thoughts. klobuchar: in the senate, there is a pilot bill to have mental health community health centers. the second is this problem with debt. we have many states in the country that don't have enough mental health beds. to a community-based mental health system. there are some real ad

jacobsen the author of six books including area 51, the pentagon's brain and unsensor ode history of darpa. and most recently the. >> create a page-turning narrative out. a [inaudible] help me walk annie jacobson to pollic and protest at the wharf. [applause] >> how is my sound? first of all, politics and prose, thank you for heying me. all wonderful to be here. and thanks to everybody for coming. i'm here tonight to talk to you about surprise, kill, vanish. and that is a book about the cia's pair military capacity which -- paramilitary capacity which is some something many people aren't away exists. this book back for men ten years ago in 2009 so i had a source visiting me at my house, his name is brett, and he was on his way walk from the middle east and he brought back with him a challenge coin. i it's a bar,-drinking coin and one side it said kabul afghanistan and on the other side it said u.s. department of state, and my source, brett, has nothing to do with the diplomacy, he is weapons trained and so i had an idea while he couldn't say what he was doing in the middle east, it was pre

he got darpa. it produced the internet. some of you may think that was terrible. i don't know. some of the impacts on our children are probably negative, but the internet is extremely important to our society. if you remember, the transistor was produced in the 1940's. the integrated circuit, a key to the digital revolution -- we have gone through two revolutions in your lifetime. you have been through the second industrial revolution, which gave you those giant automobile companies, the giant steel companies, all of that. now we are in a bio digital revolution. biology has changed the way we live, stay alive. i am a walking testament to the good effects of biology. but digital. there is also digital. that has changed the way we do things. it has changed the way i do things on most every day. it has changed the way most of you do things. we have been through a bio digital revolution that followed sputnik. the results for ike, for his policy, was a low rate of inflation. moderate growth approaching, but not region, 3% per year. -- not reaching 3% per year. many new people were b

think about the creation of the u.s.,et with darpa in the think about the creation of some of the biggestlicon valley. this is not unprecedented. it is -- this kind of stuff goes on all the time. i think why it is important in the case of huawei is that there is so much sensitivity and there andbeen so much rhetoric allegations on the part of the u.s. government about the potential threat posed by huawei. fight of the rhetoric from the government, we have seen that u.s. companies have been able to still sell to huawei. does this mean the political pressure will go off from here? tom cole and that is right. we have a handful of companies, micron intel, these big chipmakers in the u.s. that have found a way possibly through a loophole whereby you can sell if it is coming from a foreign subsidiary, a foreign entity that is part of the larger u.s. based business. certainly, lawmakers in the u.s. are not letting up. they are saying to donald trump don't use huawei as a bargaining chip. keep up the pressure in this company. it still represents a threat. down at the 11th hour just say, ok, every

artificial intelligence institute at the university of buffalo until last year he was referred to the darpa program. danielle is professor of lot and has co-authored articles of the impact on national security and democracy. and a distinguished research fellow but then that recent scholarship has addressed operations and welcome to all of you. >>. >> chairmanship fin ranking member, thank you for the invitation to testify about national security threats posed byhe ai fake content with deepfake. what we are talking about when we discuss this is fundamentally we talk about digital technology making it easier for people to create synthetic media with video or audio or text people can manipulatete mini media for a long time but things have changed recently. there are two fundamental parts one continuing those advancements of computing capability of that physical hardware to run the software just got cheaper and more powerful and at the same time it has become increasingly accessible to make it dramatically easier and allows for a change of functionality like video and audio the forces driving t

one of the ways to do that is actually to show up and know what other agencies are doing i am going darpato talk about what they are doing in ways we can partner with them and quite frankly we had different missions and the resiliency side that we talked about we are the agency that has the responsibility and the electrical sector. to make sure that is the idea we responsibility another agencies have areas that come in on the fringes but doe that is their base to make sure we have that we easily can see in the electrical grid. we are doing everything we can and the modeling side of what doe is doing with the environment i think will pay some great dividends in those low-lying areas at sea flooding occurring with the effect of the changing these are some important goals. >> thank you mister secretary i'm on armed services as well i yelled back my time. >> thank you mister secretary and governor it's always good to see you. it's no secret i am excited about solar energy as is my friend to help our nation in the world transition to a clean energy economy. unfortunately the administration pro

i know at darpa you were working on that.ere are we've commercially or by government or researchers to be technologically able to detect deepfakes? >> deepfakes is typically referred to as a particular technology that there are , certain software out there for doing that. it's not a general concept. the initial paper that was published that gave rise to this technology came after the start of the metaphor program. we did adapt to start looking at those things. there are point solutions out there today that deepfakes coming from these particular softwares can be detected. >> do we have the technology to actually be able to digitally verify the videos, the photographs, et cetera? >> the problem is doing it at scale. the problem is doing it at scale. if you give me a particular video, with high confidence i can tell you whether this is a fake video and i can also come back and say, ok, here are the videos or images that went into it. >> how long does that take? is that a matter of an hour, 30 minutes? with the right hardware and

although i'm no longer a representative of darpa, i did start the media forensic program's metaphor. the general problem of metaphor is address our limited ability to analyze, detect and address manipulated media that at the time was being used by increased frequency with increased frequency by our adversaries. it's clear that our manual processes, despite being carried out by exceptionally competent analysts and personnel in the government, at the time could not deal with the problem at scale that the manipulated content was being created and proliferated. typical fashion, the government got ahead of this problem knowing it was a marathon, not a sprint. and the program was designed to address both current and evolving manipulation capabilities. not with a single point solution, but with comprehensive approach. what's unexpected, however, was the speed at which this information technology would evolve. in just the past five years, we've gone from a new technology that could produce novel results at the time but nowhere near what could be done manually with basic desktop editing softw

we have athat contract working on a project that is a darpa defense research agency project where weatment a images and videos in order to drive the technology to detect manipulations. companiesocial media have forensic labs. are they prepared to detect these videos and the sharing of them across platforms? guest: that's a really good question i think that's probably shin betweenortant spreading the information quickly and people that have that intention towards creating it. from what i gather in speaking with people that work for social they do havees, capabilities and they are researching capabilities to detect material that is fabricated and being uploaded to their sites. i would not call it a formal forensic lab but in terms of working with techniques to detect and try to deploy those platforms to suppress disinformation is a high priority for them. host: joe from florida. caller: my question is for mr. smith. the answer needs to be yes or no. do you believe russia intervened with our election? china, north korea? smith?eff guest: yeah, that has nothing to do with deepfakes which