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information operations
Event
June 3, 2025 10:30 am
Securing Our Autonomy: How AI Fuels Cognitive Warfare – and How We Can Fight Back
In a side event at the SCSP AI Expo, experts on the front lines of policy, industry, and neuroscience unpacked how AI is being weaponized for psychological and influence operations — and how we can build resilience across society.
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misinformation
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neuroscience
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psychological warfare
June 3, 2025
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Decrypting Iran’s AI-Enhanced Operations in Cyberspace
Iran has long used unconventional tactics and weapons to wage asymmetric warfare. Now, amid recent uprisings, Iran has begun to incorporate AI into its domestic surveillance efforts. What does this mean for Tehran’s future cyberspace and information operations?
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September 26, 2024
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Scaling Cyber & Information Operations By, With, and Through
SOF can and should leverage their existing placements and relationships to enable and empower host nation forces to build formidable firewalls against cyber and information operations before they reach US and allied digital shores.
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Geopolitics of Technology
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unconventional warfare
January 12, 2021
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October 8, 2020 1:00 pm
Active Measures, Disinformation Campaigns, and Election Security with Nellwyn Thomas and Thomas Rid
To understand the historical and current challenges of political warfare and disinformation and what is being done to address these threats, IST hosted a high-level panel discussion with experts on active measures, the history of information operations, the evolution of modern disinformation campaigns, and their implications for today’s election security.
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October 8, 2020
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