Manufacturing Deceit: How Generative AI Supercharges Information Manipulation
Authoritarian actors have long worked to undermine democracy at a global scale by manipulating the information space, but the recent emergence of faster, more expansive, and potentially more potent “generative AI” technologies is creating new risks. With more than fifty national elections around the globe taking place in 2024, the stakes this year are particularly high. Given these challenges, this report explores the following questions: how is generative AI helping authoritarians tip the scales against democracy and accelerate harmful narratives in a wide variety of country contexts? And how are civil society organizations using the same set of tools to push back?
Please join Christopher Walker (National Endowment for Democracy), Adam Fivenson (International Forum for Democratic Studies), author Beatriz Saab (Democracy Reporting International), Nighat Dad (Digital Rights Foundation), and Vittoria Elliott (WIRED) for a virtual discussion on how generative AI supercharges information manipulation. This event marks the launch of the new Forum report, “Manufacturing Deceit: How Generative AI Supercharges Information Manipulation,” by Beatriz Saab.
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