GNET Workshop - Artificial Intelligence and Violent Extremism: Understanding the Landscape (20 February 2024)
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), with support from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), invites you to attend invites you to attend the first event in a two-part virtual workshop series on Artificial Intelligence and Violent Extremism.
This workshop will feature presentations from our expert panellists on their latest research, assessing the ways in which terrorists and violent extremists are weaponising artificial intelligence to produce propaganda, mobilise recruitment efforts and manipulate political outcomes:
- Daniel Siegel – Memes to Malice: GenAI’s Role in Empowering Neo-Nazis, Trolls, & Other Far-Right Subcultures
- Achi Mishra – Election Deception: Navigating the Threat of Deepfakes in Politics
- Meili Criezis – AI Caliphate: The Creation of Pro-Islamic State Propaganda Using Generative AI
This workshop session will finish with a moderated Q&A session that is open to all attendees.
If you have any questions about this or future workshops, or if you would like to collaborate for future sessions, please email [email protected].
Panellists:
Achi Mishra is an AI Ethics Engineer at Polygraf Inc., focusing on identifying and mitigating ethical concerns regarding AI governance and detection. Previously, she was a researcher for the ASSIST Lab at UC Santa Cruz where she completed her M.S. in Computational Media.
Daniel Siegel is a Master’s student at Columbia University (SIPA) focusing on the digital strategies of extremist and state actors and their exploitation of artificial intelligence models in influence operations.
Meili Criezis is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), a Global Network on Extremism Contributor, and an Accelerationism Research Consortium Fellow. She is currently a PhD student at American University, focusing research on extremism in online spaces, the Islamic State, white supremacism, and gender and extremism.