Political propaganda and artificial intelligence–driven misinformation are infiltrating social media accounts, and Americans need to do something about it. That’s the warning revealed in research from two Vanderbilt professors and discussed on this special episode of the Quantum Potential podcast.
The researchers explain their breakthrough red flag discovery and how they uncovered evidence of a state-sponsored company in China that is deploying sophisticated, AI-driven propaganda campaigns and profiling U.S. political figures.
is a research professor who leads the Wicked Problems Lab at the ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ Institute of National Security and is a former Pentagon official. is an associate professor of political science and a faculty affiliate at the Institute of National Security who uses models to study some of the world’s most complex security challenges.
Goldstein and Benson talk with Vanderbilt provost C. Cybele Raver about the growing threat of AI-driven propaganda and the warnings they wrote about in a guest essay in The New York Times,
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