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Highlights

The DARPA Perspective on AI and Autonomy at the DoD

Gregory C. Allen, director of the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies

Matt Turek, Deputy Director Information Innovation Office, DARPA

March 27, 2024

Analytics

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Tech expert shows how deepfake images could inspire real-world panic

CNN Anderson Cooper 360

June 20, 2023

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Why 'deepfake' videos are becoming more difficult to detect

PBS News Hour

June 12, 2019

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Mediography

  1. Knight, Wil. “The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes. Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.” MIT Technology Review. August 7, 2018. 

  2. Scoles, Sarah. “These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now. We'll soon find it hard to know with our own eyes if a video is real or generated by AI, but new algorithms are staying one or two steps ahead of the fakers.” Wired. October 17, 2018. 

  3. Rothman, Joshua. “In the Age of AI, Is Seeing Still Believing?” The New Yorker, November 5, 2018. 

  4. Kampf, Stephanie; Kelly, Mark. “A new ‘arms race’: How the US military is spending millions to fight fake images.” CBC Fifth Estate, November 18, 2018.  

  5. Crawford, Shannon K.; Phillips, Kyra; Yang, Allie. “Seeing but not believing: Inside the business of ‘deepfakes’. Experts fear deepfakes could become the next frontier in fake news.” ABC News, December 10, 2018. 

  6. Sumagaysay, Levi. “Deepfakes: Fighting fake videos, from Silicon Valley to Washington.” Mercury News, January 3, 2019. 

  7. Tashea, Jason. “As deepfakes make it harder to discern truth, lawyers can be gatekeepers.” American Bar Association (ABA) Journal, February 26, 2019. 

  8. Walsh, Charlotte. “What is a deepfake? This video technology is spooking some politicians.” USA Today, March 15, 2019. 

  9. O’Brien, Miles. “Why ‘deepfake’ videos are becoming more difficult to detect.” PBS News Hour, June 12, 2019. 

  10. Solsman, Joan. “Deepfakes may ruin the world. And they can come for you, too. But -- bright side! -- videos with your face on somebody else’s body usually aren't as tantalizing to bad guys as, say, creating political chaos.” CNET, June 26, 2019. 

  11. Knight, Wil. “The world’s top deepfake artist is wrestling with the monster he created.” MIT Technology Review, August 16, 2019.

  12. Culliford, Elizabeth, “Facebook, Microsoft launch context to detect deepfake videos.” Reuters, September 5, 2019.

  13. Lukianoff, Mike. “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is on DARPA’s Agenda — Why You Should Pay Attention. When DARPA decides to fund an initiative, we immediately know a couple of things for certain.”. Towards Data Science, October 24, 2019.

  14. Vincent, Brandi. “CISA, DARPA Offer Look Into their Dealings with Deepfakes. Agency and industry officials outlined their approaches to disinformation campaigns ahead of election 2020.” NextGov, November 1, 2019.

  15. Morris, Betsy. “Tech Companies Step Up Fight Against ‘Deepfakes’. Google, Twitter, Facebook take action as the number of manipulated photos and images online has doubled this year.” The Wall Street Journal, November 22, 2019.

  16. Strickland, Eliza. “Facebook AI Launches Its Deepfake Detection Challenge At the NeurIPS conference, Facebook asked researchers to build tools to spot deepfake videos.” IEEE Spectrum, December 11, 2019.

  17. Greengard, Samuel. “Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage? The ability to produce fake videos that appear amazingly real is here. Researchers are now developing ways to detect and prevent them.” Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), January 1, 2020.

  18. Henno, Jacques. “L'intelligence artificielle à l'heure de la transparence algorithmique. L'IA ne sera un succès que si elle inspire confiance aux consommateurs et aux citoyens. Rendre ses décisions explicables et transparentes est un défi que tentent de relever des experts de la psychologie et de la pédagogie.” Les Echos, March 9, 2020.

  19. “Voices from DARPA Episode 33: The Verification Virtuoso.” DARPA, September 23, 2020.

  20. Monroe, Don. “Seeking Artificial Common Sense. The long-standing goal of providing artificial intelligence some measure of common sense remains elusive.” Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), November 1, 2020.

  21. Wood, Simon V. Z. “Avatars of Anxiety. Falling into the deepfake-industrial complex.” Columbia Journalism Review, Spring 2021.

  22. Defense Systems Staff. “DARPA developing AI into a mission-critical partner. As artificial intelligence advances, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to treat computers more as partners in helping solve complex military problems.” Defense One, March 16, 2021.

  23. Vincent, Brandi. “Critical Update: When Seeing No Longer Means Believing, What’s a Government to Do? Agencies and lawmakers are moving to combat deepfakes and other synthetic media used as powerful tools in disinformation campaigns.” NextGov, August 24, 2021.

  24. Ornes, Stephen. “AI, Explain Thyself. Policymakers call for algorithms in health care to become more transparent. But at what cost?” proto – Massachusetts General Hospital, November 20, 2021.

  25. Leopold, George. “It’s Time to Knock Some Common Sense into ‘Brittle’ AI Algorithms.” EE Times Europe, November 25, 2021.

  26. Verma, Pranshu. “The military wants AI to replace human decision-making in battle. The development of a medical triage program raises a question: When lives are at stake, should artificial intelligence be involved?” The Washington Post, March 29, 2022.

  27. Morrison, Ryan. “AI could replace human military commanders in making life or death decisions on the battlefield, DARPA suggests.” Daily Mail, March 30, 2022.

  28. Davis, Margaret. “US Military Aims to Replace Human Commanders With AI to Remove Bias, Accelerate Decision Making on the Battlefield.” The Science Times, March 31, 2022.

  29. Hutson, Matthew. “Can Computers Learn Common Sense? A.I. researchers are making progress on a long-term goal: giving their programs the kind of knowledge we take for granted.” The New Yorker, April 5, 2022.

  30. Bluestein, Adam. “The Medic Reinvented. Can medical AI on the battlefield make sound decisions about who lives or dies?” proto – Massachusetts General Hospital, November 11, 2022.

  31. Vincent, Brandi. “How DARPA’s AI Forward program seeks ‘new directions’ on the path to trustworthy AI.” DefenseScoop, March 31, 2023.

  32. Vincent, Brandi. “The national security implications of AI chatbots.” The Defense Scoop Podcast, April 14, 2023.

  33. Staff, “Developing trustworthy AI to inform decisions when every moment counts.” Space War, June 9, 2023.

  34. O’Sullivan, Donie. “Tech expert shows how deepfake images could inspire real-world panic.” CNN Anderson Cooper 360, June 20, 2023.

  35. Michel, Arthur Holland. “Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines. AI is making its way into decision-making in battle. Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?” MIT Technology Review, August 16, 2023.

  36. Vergun, David. “DARPA to Develop AI-Autonomy Applications warfighters can trust.” SatNews, March 31, 2024.

  37. Vergun, David. “DARPA Aims to Develop AI, Autonomy Applications Warfighters Can Trust”. DOD News, March 27, 2024. 

  38. Harper, Jon. “DARPA transitions new technology to shield military AI systems from trickery. The capabilities were born out of the agency's Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception program.” DefenseScoop, March 27, 2024.

  39. Abaire, Olawale. “DARPA Flies AI-Enabled F-16s. DARPA using AI to test the F-16 fighter jets. Will this be sustainable knowing the ‘black box’ nature of AI?” Warrior Maven, March 28, 2024.

  40. Shortridge, Tom. “Voices from DARPA Podcast Episode 79: Integrating ELSI.” DARPA, May 16, 2024.

  41. Novinson, Michael. “Autonomous AI and US National Security: A Double-Edged Sword. DARPA Deputy Director Matt Turek on Managing Autonomous AI Risk in Critical Systems.” Gov Info Security, August 21, 2024.

  42. Hamilton, Emily. “Axios Event: AI and the implications for U.S. defense.” Axios, September 18, 2024.

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