Authoritarian regimes are competing to create and control emerging technology to gain the upper hand in the global power competition, while democracies have the potential to harness emerging technology to strengthen democratic institutions and freedoms. From 5G to social media, find ASD’s work on emerging technology on this page.
Interference Matters
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The ASD AI Election Security Handbook
Introduction The typical local election official in the United States is a white woman who is older than 50, earns more than $40,000, does not have a college degree, and is less likely today than in the past to have extensive experience in electio [...]
Meta Report Highlights Lack of Cross-Platform Coordination on Information Operations
Meta’s recent report on the company’s takedown of a Chinese government information campaign that was the “largest cross-platform operation” ever, and of several smaller influence campaigns that originated in Turkey, Iran, and Russia, named hundreds [...]
Lindsay Gorman in The Hill: We Can’t Let AI Take Over the 2024 Election
Last month, seven leading artificial intelligence companies agreed to voluntary commitments with the White House on AI safety, security and trust. But there’s one glaring and urgent omission: a deadline. No timeline or details regarding implementat [...]
Lindsay Gorman Discusses TikTok Parent Company’s New App on CNN
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has launched a new social media app called Lemon8. Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joined CNN to discuss whether this new app will receive the same scrutiny that TikTok has. [...]
Lindsay Gorman Explains How to Spot AI-Generated Images on Face the Nation
Lindsay Gorman, a technology expert at the German Marshall Fund, discusses on "Face the Nation" how to differentiate AI-generated images online from real ones. "Context is a really important piece of this," she noted. [...]
‘Godfather of AI’ Leaves Google and Warns of Dangers | Lindsay Gorman on DW News
As AI technology advances at an unprecedented pace, experts and policymakers are becoming increasingly concerned about its potential impact on society. From job displacement to biased decision-making, there are growing fears that AI could have uninte [...]
Lindsay Gorman Testifies Before Australian Parliament about China’s Influence Operations
Below is an unedited transcript of the proceedings provided by the Australian Parliament. Read the full transcript here. GORMAN, Ms Lindsay, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies and Head, Technology and Geopolitics Team, Alliance for Securing De [...]
Can We Control Artificial Intelligence? Lindsay Gorman on BBC News
Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processi [...]
ASD Research Covered Exclusively in New York Times: Chinese Officials Flock to Twitter to Defend TikTok
The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate. In an information campaign primarily run on Twitter, Chinese officials and state media organizations widely mocked the United [...]
Chinese State Propaganda Goes to Bat for TikTok
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday 23 March to testify in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where lawmakers peppered him with questions about TikTok’s Chinese ownership, effects on youth, and practices aroun [...]
Lindsay Gorman Talks China’s Surveillance State with the National Security Institute
As part of NSI’s ongoing series, “A Spotlight on China’s Global Repression,” NSI is excited to host a discussion examining how China uses digital tools, such as social media platforms like WeChat and TikTok and its social credit system, to further t [...]
What’s So Dangerous about TikTok? Lindsay Gorman on MSNBC
This week, all federal employees have to remove TikTok from their government-issued devices, the deadline coming just days after a Congressional hearing took aim at the social media app. NBC News Correspondent Jacob Ward breaks down the dangers of t [...]