‘Fog of War’ Intensified by AI and Social Media, Tech Policy Expert Says

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

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As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, Jake Denton, research associate for The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center, breaks down what the role of artificial intelligence has been in the conflict. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “I think the one that everyone jumps to is the [artificial intelligence]-generated content, deepfakes, things of that nature,” Denton says. “There’s a few stories of synthetic audio recordings of a general saying that an attack’s coming or those types of things that we’ve even seen in the Russia-Ukraine conflict,” Denon says. “They go around on Telegram or WhatsApp.” “They’re taken as fact because they sound really convincing. You add some background noise, and suddenly it’s like a whole production in an audio file,” Denton adds. “And typically, what you’re picking up on in a video is like the lips don’t sync, and so you know the audio is fake. When it’s an audio file, how do you even tell?” Denton also highlights social media platforms such as the Chinese-owned app, TikTok. “And so, what you’re seeing right now, especially on platforms like TikTok, is they’re just promoting things that are either fake or actual real synthetic media, like a true deepfake from the ground up and altered video, altered audio, all these things are getting promoted,” Denton says, adding: And kids, at no fault of their own, are consuming this stuff, and they’re taking as fact. It’s what you do.You see a person with a million followers that has 12 million likes and you’re like, “This is a real video.” You don’t really expect these kids to fact-check.Denton joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to also discuss President Joe Biden‘s executive order on artificial intelligence, what he views as social media companies’ roles in monitoring artificial intelligence and combating fake images and videos, and how people can equip themselves to identify fake images and videos online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joining today's episode of the Daily Signal podcast is Jake Den, research associate in the
0:04.8	Heritage Foundation's Tech Policy Center. Jake, welcome back to the show. Yeah, thanks for having
0:09.7	me back. Of course, thanks for joining us on Monday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order
0:16.2	on artificial intelligence. According to a White House fact sheet, the executive order
0:21.6	establishes new standards for AI safety and security protects Americans' privacy advances equity
0:29.1	and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition,
0:35.4	advances American leadership around the world, and more. Jake, before we get too far into today's
0:41.7	conversation, talking about this executive order, first and foremost, what is artificial intelligence?
0:48.4	It's a topic of debate that we're still having here in Washington when it comes to, you know,
0:53.0	formulating legislative approach, regulatory approach, but just generally speaking, it's kind of
0:58.6	artificial intelligence is intelligence that simulates human intelligence is like the simplest
1:04.0	dumbest version you could possibly have, but people are taking it very different directions,
1:07.8	and every piece of legislation we're seeing has a different definition. I don't think there's a
1:12.4	unified view of what it should be here in Washington, but that's a point of contention all the way
1:16.8	down to the most simple aspect of this whole policy debate. We still haven't defined the the tech
1:21.7	and a meaningful way. Thanks for that explanation. I wanted to now talk about this executive order.
1:28.5	If you could just break it down for us a little bit more, I know it was rather long.
1:32.8	The documents huge, you know, depending on your font size, you can be upwards of 110 pages,
1:38.4	and there's a lot in there, as you kind of mentioned at the beginning here, everything from
1:42.4	national security to AI labeling, so that kind of gets into the, you know, synthetic media,
1:48.0	deep fakes, having a watermark potentially, and then also, as you mentioned, this kind of diversity,
1:53.4	equity, inclusion agenda. I think across the board, the framework that's outlined in the fact sheet
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