Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.

When Seeing Is No Longer Believing – Inside The Pentagon’s Race Against Deepfake Videos

Discussion Questions:

1. What is a deepfake video? How are they created?
2. Why should the U.S. government and society be concerned about deepfake videos?

Source: Donie O’Sullivan, CNN, “Inside The Pentagon’s Race Against Deepfake Videos”, www.cnn.com, January 28, 2019.