Braden R. Allenby

Jul 31, 2024 | issues.org | Tom Burroughs |Braden R. Allenby

US intelligence officials are warning that foreign adversaries are gearing up to deploy artificial intelligence and other communication technologies to spread disinformation aimed at swaying the upcoming presidential election. In Issues, Braden R. Allenby examines how use of such “weaponized narratives” has evolved—and what makes the United States especially vulnerable.

Sep 11, 2023 | issues.org | Tom Burroughs |Braden R. Allenby

Chinese operatives are using artificial intelligence to create fake images to be spread on US social media, the tech giant Microsoft alleges, with the goal of sowing disinformation among the voting public by “denigrating US political figures and symbols.” This marks but the latest front of information battlegrounds that Braden R. Allenby describes in Issues.

Jul 19, 2023 | issues.org | Tom Burroughs |Braden R. Allenby

Earth has entered a new geologic epoch, called the Anthropocene, according to a group of experts who study how humans have changed the planet and its ecosystems. In Issues, Braden Allenby proposes some basic principles to help society navigate this new world. One tenet is that we shouldn’t aim for silver-bullet “solutions” to global problems—an unrealistic goal, the author concludes—but rather for ways to manage complex emerging conditions more broadly.

Apr 20, 2023 | issues.org | Tom Burroughs |Braden R. Allenby

Russian efforts to sway Americans—using social media to spread disinformation about such things as vaccines and the war in Ukraine—may have been more successful than previously known, according to reports on classified US documents leaked via an online chatroom. In an early examination of such emerging information battlegrounds, Braden R.

Feb 9, 2023 | issues.org | Tom Burroughs |Braden R. Allenby

Artificial intelligence is being employed to create “increasingly convincing” videos in the first use of so-called deepfake technology by a foreign government to undercut the United States, the New York Times reports. In Issues, Braden R.