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SPECIAL EPISODE: AI, Propaganda and Democracy: Inside a Groundbreaking Discovery by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Researchers

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.

Brett J. Goldstein, research professor of engineering and special advisor to the Chancellor on national security and strategic initiatives (51³Ô¹ÏÍø)

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.

Brett V. Benson, associate professor of political science (51³Ô¹ÏÍø)

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,

Listen and subscribe to the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø podcast, available now wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, go to vanderbilt.edu/quantumpotential.

Brett V. Benson, associate professor of political science, Provost C. Cybele Raver, and Brett J. Goldstein, research professor of engineering and special advisor to the Chancellor on national security and strategic initiatives (51³Ô¹ÏÍø)