AI and Technology Powered Propaganda and Disinformation Operations
Technology and AI have the potential to reshape propaganda and disinformation tactics, enabling new capabilities in both creation and dissemination. I explore how modern propaganda operations may benefit from content generation technologies like large language models to spread disinformation broadly. I will discuss the use of deepfakes, AI-fuelled personas, and how they may be employed by state and non-state actors to influence public opinion, undermine institutions, fuel information warfare, or enhance scams. Additionally, I will introduce a systematic approach to analysing influence campaign content to classify these threats, a process that may also be enhanced by AI/LLMs.
About the speaker
Lukasz Olejnik
Dr Lukasz Olejnik, LL.M. is an independent cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection researcher and consultant, Visiting Senior Research Fellow of Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
He holds a Computer Science PhD at INRIA (France), and LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh. He was associated with University College London, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Oxford’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. He was a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. Former cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, where he worked on the humanitarian consequences of cyber operations. Author of scientific articles, op-eds, analyses, and books Philosophy of Cybersecurity, and Propaganda.
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