{"id":34509,"date":"2017-02-13T23:25:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:14","slug":"the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8Dd5aVXLCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a propaganda machine. It\u2019s targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. It\u2019s a level of social engineering that I\u2019ve never seen before. They\u2019re capturing people and then keeping them on an emotional leash and never letting them go,\u201d said professor Jonathan Albright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbright, an assistant professor and data scientist at Elon University, started digging into fake news sites after Donald Trump was elected president. Through extensive research and interviews with Albright and other key experts in the field, including Samuel Woolley, Head of Research at Oxford University\u2019s Computational Propaganda Project, and Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at Kings College, it became clear to Scout that this phenomenon was about much more than just a few fake news stories. It was a piece of a much bigger and darker puzzle \u2014 a Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine being used to manipulate our opinions and behavior to advance specific political agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath illustration by Cody Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scout.ai\/story\/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine\">https:\/\/scout.ai\/story\/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a propaganda machine. It\u2019s targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. It\u2019s a level of social engineering that I\u2019ve never seen before. They\u2019re capturing people and then keeping them on an emotional leash and never letting them go,\u201d said professor Jonathan Albright.\u201d \u201cAlbright, an assistant professor and data scientist at Elon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58745,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509\/revisions\/58745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}