Non-Res Fellow @CSETGeorgetown focused on societal impacts of AI, public opinion, and online deception. Posts in personal capacity.
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1/ ✨New📝✨ How might language models change online influence operations? What can be done about this emerging threat?
In a new report, we lay out potential changes due to language models, and provide a framework to consider mitigation strategies.
cset.georgetown.edu/article/…
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“State-backed propagandists do not have to choose between state media and fake accounts, or between covert personas and overt broadcasters,” write @noUpside and @JoshAGoldstein. “They can use all of them together—and they are increasingly doing so.”
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As artificial intelligence supercharges the threat of online disinformation, U.S. “politicians have been dismantling the government agencies designed to track foreign influence,” write @noUpside and @JoshAGoldstein.
foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
Public discussion of state-backed influence often treats discrete networks of fake accounts on social media as if they're the whole game.
In @ForeignAffairs, Renée DiResta (@noUpside) and I argue this is the wrong way to see things.
Sophisticated states often combine overt AND covert tools, on both broadcast AND social media, in what we call "full-spectrum propaganda."
Our FA piece builds on a peer-reviewed article that we published in Security Studies fleshing out the full-spectrum propaganda concept in more depth.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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⭐️New Report⭐️
There is widespread disagreement about the malicious use risks of advanced AI systems. @JoshAGoldstein and @girishsastry summarize academic and industry methods for evaluating the likelihood of malicious use for the policy community ⬇️
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🚨 Today the U.S. government (@BISgov) published a complex and consequential export control rule.
Two highlights: country-level caps for AI chip exports and new controls on large AI models (trained anywhere in the world). A brief explainer... (1/10)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I'm excited to share my new piece in @ForeignAffairs, where I argue that the Chinese military faces several political and organizational challenges that could hamper its ability to deploy AI on future battlefields. 1/2
foreignaffairs.com/china/obs…
Wrote a new piece on lessons that Meta’s Q3 threat report brings to the surface in online IO:
1. Tension between virality & opsec
2. Experimentation is ongoing
3. Variation in defenses creates arbitrage dynamics
4. Line btwn overt & covert is blurry
The piece also includes 2 ideas for relatively low-cost, but perhaps meaningful, ways to expand reporting.
Curious for any reactions from T&S practitioners about feasibility.
Thanks to @justinhendrix - first time writing for TPP and highly recommend!
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🚀🏛️🚀 Introducing AGORA, ETO's new explorer for the AI governance landscape - with plain-English summaries, full text, and thematic tags for AI laws and policies around the world, from D.C. to Sacramento to Beijing 🌎 🗺️
Policymakers are debating the risks that AI systems can pose if intentionally misused—from persuasion to bio-attacks. But there's a lot of uncertainty.
@girishsastry and I have a new paper in @AIESConf that lays out strategies for reducing uncertainty.
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/…
At each stage, we lay out benefits/limitations/future directions for each method.
We hope this will help policymakers understand the landscape of malicious use research, academics see entry-points from their fields, and labs consider what types of uncertainty tests address.
Very open to discussions on where this has utility, and where it breaks down.
We'll also share a policymaker-friendly version of the framework in coming weeks.
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My latest article is now out in @TXNatSecReview! "Machine Failing: How Systems Acquisition & Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents." It asks: how does software contribute to military accidents?" Thread w/ key takeaways:
tnsr.org/2024/10/machine-fai…
Coverage of influence ops often focuses on bots and trolls, but fake accounts are one tool in the propagandist's toolbox.
@noUpside and I wrote in @ForeignPolicy: If influence operations are full-spectrum, they cannot be tackled by one player alone.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/04…
