Propaganda and Emerging Technologies

Time: · 8:30am –  2pm EDT

Date: April 5- 6

Propaganda, hate speech, misinformation, manipulation, and electoral influence have persisted for years. These problems can take on new forms as generative AI and extended reality technologies increase and become more accessible. This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to explore how emerging technologies can generate propaganda in new ways as well as reinscribe propaganda in older, more familiar ways. We will collectively think of ways to handle these problems from local and global perspectives. The goal of the conference is to help lawyers, academics, policy makers, and media companies anticipate and prepare for a new wave of propaganda through technologies that operate using AI.

Breakout Session 1: Propaganda’s Effects: Gender, Sexuality, and Rurality [Room 120 –webinar]

Walker Brewer: Northwestern University, USA
“Emerging Technologies and the Global Coordination of Misinformation: Unpacking the Transatlantic Flow of Anti-Transgender Disinformation between the US and the UK”

Bizaa Zeynab Ali, NYU / The New School for Social Research, USA
“AI as Fake News and Other Perils of Generative AI in Pakistan’s Digital Sphere”

Kiran Garimella, Rutgers University, USA
“The Role of Generative AI in Shaping Political Discourse on WhatsApp in India”

Moderator: Dhanaraj Thakur, Research Director at the Center for Democracy & Technology

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