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We Hold These Truths: How Verified Content Defends Democracies

March 27, 2023 • 9:00 – 10:30 am EDT

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The free flow of information and trust in its authenticity are essential pillars of a democratic society. Yet cheapfakes, deepfakes, and generative artificial intelligence are already being maliciously employed to undermine public confidence in traditional sources of news and government information. Given the sustained attack on democracy-sustaining institutions by those who want to undermine democratic norms and sow societal divisions in the United States and across the globe, the public needs tools to help independently verify whether a piece of content is one they can trust.    

Please join the CSIS International Security Program for an event titled “We Hold These Truths: How Verified Content Defends Democracies” on March 27 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am EDT. The event will feature a keynote address by Dana Rao, General Counsel at Adobe.

This event will take place just before the 2023 Summit for Democracy and will highlight the potential for new tools to establish authenticity standards in media and online content. The event will also demonstrate some active use cases of content provenance standards developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity and Content Authenticity Initiative.

This event is made possible by general support to CSIS.

Event Agenda

Introductory Remarks

9:00 am

Emily Harding, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, International Security Program, CSIS 

Presentation: Digital Provenance Technology and the C2PA Standard in Action

9:10 am

Andy Parsons, Senior Director, Content Authenticity Initiative, Adobe

 

Mounir Ibrahim, Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact, Truepic

 

Andrew Jenks, Principal Program Manager, Azure Media Security, Microsoft; Chairperson, Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity

 

Panel Discussion: Emerging Tools to Identify Manipulated Media and Protect Democracies

9:35 am

Suzanne Spaulding, Senior Advisor for Homeland Security, International Security Program, CSIS  (moderator)

 

Ambassador Beth Van Schaack, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, Office of Global Criminal Justice, Department of State

 

Jessica Brandt, Policy Director, AI and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings Institution

 

Dr. Matthew Turek, Deputy Director, Information Innovation Office, DARPA

 

 

Closing Address

10:15 am

Dana Rao, Chief Trust Officer and General Counsel, Adobe 

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Technology, Civic Education, and Cybersecurity

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Emily Harding

Emily Harding

Vice President, Defense and Security Department; Director, Intelligence, National Security, and Technology Program
Suzanne Spaulding

Suzanne Spaulding

Director, Defending Democratic Institutions, and Senior Adviser, Homeland Security, Defense and Security Department
Dana Rao

Dana Rao

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer, Adobe
Jessica Brandt

Jessica Brandt

Policy Director, AI and Emerging Technology Initiative; Fellow, Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institution
Andrew Jenks

Andrew Jenks

Principal Program Manager, Azure Media Security, Microsoft; Chairperson, Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity
Andy Parsons

Andy Parsons

Senior Director, Content Authenticity Initiative, Adobe
Mounir Ibrahim

Mounir Ibrahim

Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact, Truepic

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