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Nov 5, 2024 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga |William Marcellino |Anu Narayanan
Topics Availability: Web-Only Year: 2024DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/PTA2679-1 Document Number: PT-A2679-1 RAND Style Manual Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Nathan, William Marcellino, and Anu Narayanan, Generative AI's Potential Role in Information Warfare, RAND Corporation, PT-A2679-1, 2024.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga |William Marcellino
The rise of generative AI could revolutionize bad actors’ ability to conduct social media manipulation. RAND experts Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga and William Marcellino will explore this issue through a case study focused on how the Chinese military may adopt generative AI to interfere in Taiwan's democracy. Please register online to attend. Contact [email protected] with questions about the event.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga |Howard Wang
Topics Publisher: The DiplomatAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 1 Document Number: EP-70563 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga |Howard Wang
One recent hot topic amid the U.S. Department of Defense’s shift to focusing on “China, China, China” has been China’s embrace of overseas military basing. This has been made more stark by the DoD revealing that China has been interested in establishing a base in at least 18 different countries, though so far Beijing has actually scored only moderate success in establishing a permanent presence in Djibouti, and now likely Cambodia.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga |Howard Wang
One recent hot topic amid the U.S. Department of Defense’s shift to focusing on “China, China, China” has been China’s embrace of overseas military basing. This has been made more stark by the DoD revealing that China has been interested in establishing a base in at least 18 different countries, though so far Beijing has actually scored only moderate success in establishing a permanent presence in Djibouti, and now likely Cambodia.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
rand.org | Howard Wang |Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
The People's Republic of China is brokering international access agreements to expand its security footprint overseas and extend the reach of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). While these bases' utility in peacetime is clear, their utility in wartime is less so.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
The establishment of China's first official overseas military base in Djibouti in 2017 set the precedent for People's Liberation Army (PLA) units to be permanently stationed abroad. Many foreign analysts assume that China will continue expanding its overseas military presence, most likely through a mix of adding new bases and leveraging dual-use ports.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
The Chinese government just released a new “Global AI Governance Initiative,” which specifically states that China “[opposes] using AI technologies for the purposes of manipulating public opinion, spreading disinformation, intervening in other countries' internal affairs, social systems, and social order, as well as jeopardizing the sovereignty of other states.” For anyone worried about the ever-growing amount of disinformation online, and specifically the constant stream of public research...
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
rand.org | Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga |William Marcellino
In 2019, a Chinese researcher named Li Bicheng laid out his ideas about manipulating public opinion using AI. A network of “intelligent agents”—an army of fake online personae, controlled by AI—could act just realistically enough to shape consensus on issues of concern to the Chinese Communist Party, such as its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
