AI and the weaponization of information: Hybrid threats against trust between citizens and democratic institutions
Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Government deploy cyber-capacity to weaken other states and intervene in their internal affairs through aggressive external cyber operations in times of peace and conflict. Through disinformation campaigns abroad, some governments aim to influence sympathetic changes in citizen behavior and perception, reduce the participation of some parts of the population in the decision-making process, decrease the quality of their communications environment, and diminish the quality of information available to citizens. These new tactics and tools are also used in the context of an "information warfare". AI is at the center of this battlefield both as an enabler of disinformation diffusion by controlling content distribution (i.e., MLA of online platforms favoring juicy content), and as a potential opportunity to mitigate their diffusion (i.e., automated fact checking).
Source: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Author: Jérôme Duberry
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4283377052