Writing in Foreign Policy, Chris Mesorole and Alina Polyakova note that new technologies are empowering intelligence agencies and other secretive actors to manipulate democratic government.
Fueled by advances in artificial intelligence and decentralized computing, the next generation of disinformation promises to be even more sophisticated and difficult to detect.
Mesorole and Polyakova predict “deep fakes”–undetectable doctored imagery–will inevitably become part of the arsenal that deep state actors will use. They focus Russia, citing its social media interventions in European politics, but the new AI tools are available to almost anyone.
Their solution:
To address the democratization of disinformation, governments, civil society, and the technology sector therefore cannot rely on algorithms alone, but will instead need to invest in new models of social verification, too.
Source: Disinformation Wars – Foreign Policy
