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.
Rachael Dean Wilson at the McCain Institute: Defending US Democracy in the Digital Age
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson spoke at a panel discussion at the McCain Institute about the release of a report entitled "Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age". watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]
Bret Schafer quoted in FOX 8 New Orleans: AI-generated “fake” information is part of the political landscape
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined FOX 8 Live to discuss the impact of AI-generated disinformation on elections and how local and state election officials can best prepare for it. read more here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]
Rachael Dean Wilson interviewed on Scripps News about AI-generated Disinformation and the US Election
Rachael Dean Wilson with the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a former aide to Sen. John McCain is tracking the disinformation landscape. She believes AI has the potential to fuel election disinformation in ways voters cannot easily detect. "I th [...]
David Levine at the Embassy of Canada and International IDEA: AI & Elections: Exploring the Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Senior Fellow David Levine joined a panel discussion with the Embassy of Canada and International IDEA to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on elections, including its potential uses and innovations and the risks it presents. watch [...]
Bret Schafer at GMF Brussels Forum 2024: Trust in Information in the Age of AI
More than half the world’s population will head to the polls this year in the largest display of democracy in human history. This series of elections is also the first to unfold in an era in which advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
Could Satellite Broadband Combat the Digital Silk Road?
At the inaugural Belt and Road Forum in 2017, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) leader, Xi Jinping, made a pitch to the global south: the PRC could help develop partnering countries by building “big data, cloud computing, and smart cities” infr [...]
Lindsay Gorman at SXSW: Elections in the Age of AI: New Tech’s Impacts on Democracy
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joined a panel at SXSW 2024 to discuss how artificial intelligence will impact democratic institutions and elections moving forward. She was joined by Boston University's Joan Donovan, Center fo [...]
Krystyna Sikora, David Levine, and Lindsay Gorman in the Fulcrum: Elections workers must wake up to the risks posed by AI
Days before New Hampshire’s presidential primary, up to 25,000 Granite State voters received a mysterious call from “President Joe Biden.” He urged Democrats not to vote in the primary because it “only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect [...]
Lindsay Gorman Testifies Before the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Communications and Technology Subcommittee about how the United States can secure its communications networks from foreign adversari [...]
ASD Launches Project to Pioneer Novel Technologies that Strengthen Democratic Resilience
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is launching two initiatives to strengthen global democratic practices, promote good governance, and support free and fair elections. The projects will [...]
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 [...]
South Korea as a Case Study in US Techno-Economic Statecraft
My travels to South Korea as part of a “Next Generation Leaders” delegation, sponsored by the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and the Korea Foundation, highlighted the robustness of the US-South Korean alliance and the challenges facing demo [...]