Political Quotes

“My amendment, which I am coleading with Congresswoman Yvette Clarke of New York, involves a looming threat to American security and American democracy from the use of deepfake technology by our Nation's adversaries. As policymakers, we must understand this challenge and put in place a whole-of-government strategy to address it in a way that protects our interests and is consistent with our values. The U.S. intelligence community has an important role to play in this effort. The House Intelligence Committee, led by Chairman Schiff, recently held an illuminating and alarming hearing on deepfakes. As the witnesses at that hearing testified, technology now enables anyone with a computer, internet access, and technical skills to create fabricated and relatively convincing video and audio recordings that depict individuals doing or saying things that they did not do or say. The technology behind deepfakes is rapidly evolving. Soon individuals will be able to create highly realistic and difficult to debunk video and audio content. At a time when Americans are already being inundated, especially online, by a flood of false or misleading information, deepfake technology has the potential to make it even harder for the American public to trust what it sees and hears. It is easy to imagine the different ways in which deepfake technology could be exploited by America's foes.…”