Argus analyzes the open-source web to predict anomalous and potentially illicit behavior hiding in plain sight, according to the company. It performs work that would otherwise require thousands of intelligence analysts and hundreds of millions of dollars a year in areas critical to national security such as supply chain risk management, intellectual property theft, social media intelligence and insider threat detection.
- William Wall, who leads Accrete’s federal sales subsidiary, Accrete AI Government, formerly served as a U.S. Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and with the Joint Special Operations Command.
- Zachary Smith, Accrete AI Government’s Program Manager, is a retired special agent who spent most of his 23-year Air Force career focused on countering human, technical and cyber-based threats.
US special ops to wage real-time AI information war
That's according to AI software developer, Accrete, which announced in a press release last week it will provide its “open-source threat detection” software, 'Argus,' to the Pentagon to target “synthetic media” and so-called disinformation on social media in real time.
- The tool would be used by intelligence analysts and other specialists to “predict real time disinformation threats from social media,” the company explained.
- The Pentagon isn’t the only customer that will have access to Argus’ capabilities – a version called Nebula Social is set to be marketed to private corporations in order to manage their online reputations and customers’ conversation about their brand.
“Companies are already experiencing significant economic damage caused by the spread of AI-generated viral disinformation and deep fakes manufactured by competitors, disgruntled employees, and other types of adversaries,” Bhuyan said, arguing the market was looking for military-grade information warfare tools to be shared with the private sector.
- The private-sector version of the software is supposed to protect against “customer pain points” by learning what a company values and responding to the most relevant issues first – before they have a chance to negatively impact client behavior – with autonomously-generated content, i.e. synthetic media.
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Argus is a versatile AI Agent for anomaly detection that continuously analyzes vast volumes of dynamic open-source unstructured data and autonomously generates knowledge graphs to extract critical insights that bolster national security.
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U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Awards Accrete Contract for AI Agent Argus to Detect Disinformation Threats from Social Media
Anomaly detection AI software, Argus, analyzes social media data to predict emergent narratives and generate intelligence reports at a speed and scale that empowers military forces to neutralize viral disinformation threats.
New York, NY, August 29, 2023 – Accrete AI, a leading dual-use enterprise AI company, deployed its AI software for open-source threat detection, Argus, with the U.S. Department of Defense in 2022. Today, Accrete is excited to announce that it has been awarded a new contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to deploy Argus to enable intelligence analysts and special operators in USSOCOM to predict real time disinformation threats from social media.
“Synthetic media, including AI-generated viral narratives, deep fakes, and other harmful social media-based applications of AI, pose a serious threat to U.S national security and civil society,” said Prashant Bhuyan, Founder and CEO of Accrete. “Social media is widely recognized as an unregulated environment where adversaries routinely exploit reasoning vulnerabilities and manipulate behavior through the intentional spread of disinformation. USSOCOM is at the tip of the spear in recognizing the critical need to identify and analytically predict social media narratives at an embryonic stage before those narratives evolve and gain traction. Accrete is proud to support USSOCOM’s mission.”
Accrete will also launch an enterprise version of Argus Social for disinformation threat detection later this year called Nebula Social. Nebula Social will address urgent customer pain points pertaining to AI-generated synthetic media, including heightened risk from viral disinformation and deep fakes. Managing AI-generated synthetic media risk requires an AI agent capable of autonomously learning what is most important to an enterprise and predicting the most relevant emergent social media narratives across modalities, including language, image, video, and audio, before they influence behavior.
Nebula Social not only aims to help enterprise customers manage synthetic media risk, such as AI-generated smear campaigns from competitors, but also to autonomously generate timely and relevant content that matches the most influential emergent narratives with authentically engaged audiences to drive more efficient product innovation and go-to-market strategies. Nebula Social has the potential to significantly expand the traditional social listening market by satiating latent enterprise demand for more intelligent and predictive social media tools for a variety of use cases, including crisis management, product innovation, recruiting, marketing, and political strategy.
According to Bhuyan, “Government agencies and enterprises alike have an urgent need to manage a plethora of risks and opportunities posed by AI-generated synthetic media.” Bhuyan goes on to say, “Companies are already experiencing significant economic damage caused by the spread of AI-generated viral disinformation and deep fakes manufactured by competitors, disgruntled employees, and other types of adversaries. We believe that the market for AI that can predict and neutralize malign AI-generated synthetic media is about to explode.”
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About Accrete AI
Accrete, founded in 2017, is a dual-use enterprise AI company that delivers configurable, reliable, and accurate AI agents to both government and commercial customers. Accrete’s AI agents solve the last mile problem in AI by autonomously generating knowledge graphs that facilitate automated reasoning, domain-specific insight extraction, and decision automation. Accrete is headquartered in Lower Manhattan with offices in Alexandria, VA, and Wellesley, MA. For more information, visit www.accrete.ai.
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