UB expert to Congress on 'deepfake' deceptions: 'It's likely to get much worse'

Published June 13, 2019

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An article in The Buffalo News reports David Doermann, professor of SUNY Empire Innovation and director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, testified before the House Intelligence Committee about the threats that “deepfake” videos and other types of artificial intelligence-generated synthetic data pose to the U.S. election system. 

"There's an old adage that says that a lie can go halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on, and that's true," he said. 

Read the article here.