Lecture
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Henning Lahmann
- Date
- Monday 7 October 2024
- Time
- Location
- Online only
“Should We Use AI to Counter ‘Cognitive Warfare’”?
Not least since the revelations of Russian information operations to influence elections in the United States and Europe through social media and other online platforms in 2016, the threat of “cognitive warfare” has been on the minds of policymakers in Europe. More recently, the emergence and fast ubiquity of large-language models to generate text and other AI technologies to create synthetic media such as “deepfakes” has raised fears that we might be at another inflection point towards an increasingly unreliable and politically harmful online information environment. In response, calls to utilize AI technologies to counter the perceived threats have become louder. But is that a good idea? What do we know about the severity of the threat of “cognitive warfare” by Russia and other actors anyway? And what is at stake when we start countering their adversarial efforts with more AI tools? Can we effectively protect the fundamental rights that are essential for our democratic societies by way of machine learning?
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