AESOP | Sources & Bibliography
In March 2022, the Russians attempted a deep-fake attack against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It was thankfully identified as a falsity. But if it had been believed, what would have been the consequences? I fear what an AI generated fabrication could do to our own elections and democratic structures.
We have arrived at a brave new world, where AI can increasingly imitate human writing, generate lifelike images and video, and create audio indistinguishable from real human voices. And these systems can do all of that, while the actors that employ them have access to a mountain of internet data describing our desires, addictions, and psychological profiles. We are ripe for influence and deception. As Dallas Willard, the former USC Professor of Philosophy, once wrote, “When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea.”
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How synthetic media, or deepfakes, could soon change our world | 60 Minutes
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A Moore’s Law for Everything | Sam Altman
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Useful Fiction | August Cole, Peter Singer
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The MADCOM Future: How artificial intelligence will enhance computational propaganda, reprogram human culture, and threaten democracy | Atlantic Council
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Deep Fakes: A looming challenge for primacy, democracy, and national security | Boston University School of Law
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The Price of Influence: Disinformation in the Private Sector | Recorded Future
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Tech Stream: How disinformation evolved in 2020 | Brookings
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Understanding Information Disorder | First Draft
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We asked GPT-3 to write an Academic Paper about itself. Then we tried to get it published | Scientific American
