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 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professors and discussed on this special episode of the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 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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