United nations is planning to send monitors to the ukranian says he is im to investigate reports of a mass burial site there. Ukraine says that 450 bodies were discovered just days after the city was recaptured from Russian Forces accused Russian Forces of carrying out possible war crimes. Any of the victims of believe to have been civilians and Officials Say most are showing signs of torture on their abdul hamid visited. Is human just a warning that you might find some of these images now to stopping. We went to that a various sizes. I would say its a large scale burial side. You had a grave after grave, with forces on top some with names of people with the date of birth and the date of death, death. Others just numbered. And then they were forensic experts. Theyre already investigating doing their work. Busy they will have to exhibit every single body that is there and, and figure out whats the cause of death. Who is this person when that person died or was that person killed by a shelling or was that person tortured . There were pro ukrainian officials on site who said that at least one body that they had found had a rope around there, and a rounded snake in their hands tied at the back. We having seen that body. But we have seen these experts pulling out the exhibit these graves. We have also seen what appeared to be a small mass grave in the sense that is not in the hundreds. Numbers is about 17 bodies that we witnessed being brought out of that a grave and they appeared to all be soldiers. I so the signal insignia of ukraine. So supposing there were ukrainian soldiers. I was told that the investigators when they 1st arrived, had found on top of that location is signed with written on ukrainian troops. So now they were, they did the site was pretty grim. Some of them were in a really bad condition. Some of them appeared to have lost their lives a while ago as their bodies were decomposing. So it is as church in the massive job for the forensic experts. 40 investigators concerns over the warn you queen of spelled out into the oven summit of Central Asian powers and is Prime Minister andrew modi directly criticize the conflict during talks with president putin. I tell you its not an error of war and i have spoken to many times of the phone on this issue that democracy, diplomacy, and dialogue are all the things that make it clear to the world that in the coming days, how can we move on the path of peace, we will get to talk on this issue today. In our other headlines this, our c high between care gets done into jacob stone has been violated. Just as after a meeting between the leaders on friday. Both countries accuse each other of carrying out attacks in dispute areas along the 950 kilometer border. At least 3 people have been killed. 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Those in the back of the line of and told theyll have to wait at least 22 hours. The bottom line is next. Ah hi, im Steve Clements and i have a question. Drones equipped with facial recognition, bio weapons customized to one persons dna. How scary is the future of war . Lets get to the bottom line. Ah. When we think of war, most probably its based on the images we see from ukraines battlefields, tanks, soldiers, guns, plains, and bombs. But thats just what we see with our own eyes. And the ukraine war has mostly been a conventional war, at least thus far. Its more like the combat of the last century. But if you look just around the corner, youll find a whole alarming world out there and its not Science Fiction. Were talking about assassination Drones Program to roam around, to find and kill a specific person. How about personalized bio weapons . Yes, you heard it correctly. A virus that is targeted to work on the dna of one person. We saw that in the last james bond film, but im not going to spoil the ending for you. And on top of that, we have major advances information operations, cyber attacks, and even data breaches where our personal information is used against us. So what will the wars of the 21st century look like . Today were talking with mark goodman, a global strategist whos worked with the f, b, i and interpol, and founded the future Crimes Institute at silicon valleys singularity university. He is the author of future crimes inside the digital underground and the battle for our connected world. Mark goodman, its terrific to be with you and i need to tell our audience that this is a conversation you and i have been having literally for more than a decade. And i want to put something up on the screen for our audience. From something you wrote in the atlantic a decade ago, and in it, its called hacking the articles called hacking the president s dna. Id loved our audience, they get a feel for you. What you feel are the greatest fragility right now as we look forward to technological advancement. But how can these be turned around in very disconcerting ways . Well, thank you, steve for having me on your show. Its great to reconnect again. In terms of your question, technology has always decided battles throughout history. The people who had the most ships, the people who had the best muskets, the people who have access to explosives and eventually chemical and biological weapons, and theyve been Nuclear Weapons. So technology is the forefront of warfare. Which changing though, is the amount of money you need to develop this, these weapons and the proliferation of technology. So you mentioned bio warfare, biotechnology, bio weapons, as i covered in my atlantic article and hacking the president and dna. But in fact, every technology and in terms of modern exponential technologies, think of robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, nano technology, genetic, synthetic, biology, internet of things, every single one of these devices can be used for a public good. But theres always the flip side of technology and that they can be used by criminals, by state actors and of course, by terrorist organizations. And is the price and proliferation of these technologies decreases the proliferation increases and the price decreases. Theres a growing range of non state actors that can also get access to these tools. One of the things i thought about a bit as weve seen poisonings now used as an active state and you know to some degree terror. And weve seen accusations that rushes president Vladimir Putin has poisoned and killed both of radioactive elements and you know, other pathogens to do this. I guess my question to mark is, are we at the point where the vision you had 10 years ago is really here that weve caught up with that vision. And today we really do run the risk of an individual pathogen or a pathogen thats directed, you know, at a group of, you know, people with a certain characteristic. And what does that mean . Well, i think that we are definitely there. You mentioned president putting in some of his activities, weve definitely seen it in terms of the Chemical Attacks with nova chuck against mr. Skirt paul, the former russian officer in the u. K. And that caused a quite a chemical attack on the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and northern ireland. We saw more recently with Opposition Leader and evolving where they put a chemical weapon in his underwear that ended up sending him to the hospital in germany. And almost killed him. So countries in general and russia and specific have been very aggressive about using these tools and the same things that you can do with personalized chemical weapons. You can certainly do with personalized genetic weapons. At the time, the 1st human genome was decoded nearly 2 decades ago. The cost of doing that was 3000000000. 00 and took over a decade with a global and International Effort to pull it off. Today you can do the same thing and matter of hours or days for about a 100. 00. So moores law has held consistent throughout this whole process. And in fact, advances in Synthetic Biology and genetics are proceeding at a pace 5 times as rapidly as moores law. And what that means is that our ability to use Synthetic Biology, g, Synthetic Biology and genetics for both good and ill is proceeding at an exponential page. So its kind of, you know, in, in a way a genetic arms race that im hearing from you. And i, and i guess my question is, whos best at this game . Where are we, where is the United States visa be russia, china, iran . I dont know france, england, other nations that, that look, you know, all warm and cuddly, but may in fact have capacities that we should be worried about. Yeah, there, its a simple answer to your question because its indisputable. The world leader on this front is the peoples republic of china. They have the greatest number of personnel dedicated to this effort, the greatest budgets dedicated to this effort. And they have something called the aging genomics institute, or b, g i, which is the largest genomic sequencing company in the world. I say company because then effect, it is a public entity. But it was created with the help and sponsorship of the Peoples Liberation army. And so as citizens around the world, not just chinese citizens, but it doesnt say around the world, submit dna for medical tests or other purposes. Huge amounts of it are being sent off to china without the knowledge, understanding or agreement, tacit agreement or informed consent. But the people who do it, i can give you 2 examples. One was, there is a test that can be given to pregnant women for genetic defects. And it was discovered that over 8000000 women around the world from 50 to different countries, had agreed to get this genetic test to see if their baby was going to have a medical issue. What they did not know is that all 8000000 samples were sent off to b, g i in beijing because it could be process, theyre more quickly b, g. I shared all of that information with the Peoples Liberation army. The joint studies on it build up a huge bio data bank and have now gone ahead and publish numerous papers on it. Ill say that was just one example. One thing that is growing increasingly common, both in the United States, europe and other parts of the world is the concept of genetic testing. People ought to be tested both for medical issues to see if they have an underlying medical issue. And also for purposes of ancestry and 2 of the Largest Companies that partake these test around the world, but 23 and me and ancestry dot com have also used genetic sequencers in china to help uses information. And so there are some risks there that are not widely understood by the general public. And in fact, the concern is so great that the military has issued a warning to all service members. And the United States strongly discouraging them from using Companies Like 23 me and ancestry until they can get greater clarity on what specifically is being done with their genetic material when they submit it. As a fascinating rabbit hole to go down. But let me ask you something about the u. S. Side of this. Youve talked a little bit about china being the leader in potentially weapon ising. You know, some of this dna information is a remarkable cable that we all came to see as a result of Edward Snowden revelations. And obviously, Edward Snowden is a complicated character up there. But nonetheless, we have him to thank for this top secret cable in july 31st of 2009, and it, and it is the reporting and collection needs at the United Nations issued by then secretary of state hillary clinton. And basically she instructs her team to collect biographical and biometric information on key permanent representatives to the un. I mean, are we part of the arms race in the United States because this memo basically says, we probably are. Yeah, to your point the u. S. Definitely is a player in this field. Lets remember that it was the United States, that dakota the 1st human genome, and we have some of the best genomic scientists in the world. There are many people out there like George Church and many others that are, that are absolutely at the cutting edge of this type of research science. And the us, of course, is looking at the military implications of these tools that pronounced the reason, but to be able to protect it. Soldiers, if some other country or to develop a bio weapon that could negatively impact us soldiers posted abroad, us diplomats posted abroad or even the broader us citizen read the United States. Government would be derelict in its duties if it did not understand the implications of the consequences. And though it may seem far fetched to think that somebody would launch a biological attack against the United States we thought 10 years ago, it would be improbable if not impossible, for somebody to launch a Nuclear Weapon or tactical Nuclear Weapon in the 21st century. And yet, here we find those issues very much up for debate and potentially to be put into effect by russia and ukraine and elsewhere. So warfare is tricky and its changing all the time. So yes, the u. S. Is definitely researching this. Clearly if they put out that cable and i dont, you know, ive never seen the cable, its classified. So i dont know what is said in it, except to say that i know it was part of the release of information out there. And you could understand that if you are the u. S. Government or any government, you want to learn as much about your friends and even your enemies as you can. Because if youre negotiating with the foreign leader, and there is genetics suggestions that they are mentally ill, have a short life, will have a short life will have some sort of critical disease that very may very well play into your Foreign Policy or how you approach the leader, the one thing i will say about the United States versus china, for example, is that here we are not required to provide Genetic Information to the government upon our birth. But that is true in many countries around the world. Denmark, 30 years ago instituted a genetic bio bank and they did it for the purposes of curing disease. But now 2025 years later, some of those infants have grown up. And that same genetic database can be used by the government of denmark and has been for the purposes of identifying criminals. The last thing ill say about china is that it is an order of magnitude larger in terms of its databases. With 1300000000 citizens all required to submit german genetic material. They have a huge advantage on the positive side. They have a huge advantage for the purposes of developing medicines and uncovering diseases because weve now entered the age where you can mix not just Genetic Information, but Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to uncover traits and patterns that otherwise would have been previously impossible. Due to computational limitations, so they have that benefit and of course, if they can do it for the purposes of good, they also can do it for the purposes of ill, including warfare. What were seeing in warfare and hybrid war is not only the manipulation of our physical being of our genetics, of our dna, of the creation, potentially a viruses. But the influence on our minds, the taking of data, the compromising across a lot, a lot. A lot of fronts in the, you know, i guess youd call it the digital and, you know, cyberspace and one of the things its been interesting is the cybersecurity, cheap at twitter, the former cybersecurity chief. Now a whistleblower has said, theres just a recklessness in the way that mass of amounts of data, personal data about people is being used this personal ledges that there are many spies for india employed within twitter. Weve had saudi individuals who previously worked for twitter, who were in fact convicted of spying for the, for saudi arabia. I guess my question is should we any of asleep well at night, given this vulnerability and we sort of see society as the responsibility of society, of a government is to create safe, safer, and safer and better environments. But as i look at whats going on, i just sort of fear that so many of the areas that weve taken for granted as being safe are in fact wobbly, fragile. And they create vulnerabilities for us. So id just be interested in how you see our data world, and you just talked about 23 and me. But what about twitter, facebook, google, other major social media platforms . Well, i share your concern and i think its very astute that you pointed out. And when