DARPA Calling for AI Proposals to Measure How Authoritarian Regimes Control Information MicroStockHub/istockphoto email June 2, 2021 11:52 AM ET Tech developed under the program could help the Defense Department react to repressive actions in cyberspace. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for innovative research concepts that can help foster an understanding of how authoritarian regimes control information. For authoritarian regimes, maintaining control of information has always been imperative. But digital technologies are providing nations such as China—infamous for the surveillance of its own citizens—new tools for censorship. DARPA, under a program called Measuring the Information Control Environment, or MICE, wants to develop artificial intelligence technology to “measure how digitally authoritarian regimes repress their populations at scale over the internet via censorship, blocking, or throttling,” according to a June 1 post on SAM.gov.