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Oct 24, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
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Dec 26, 2025
As chatbots evolve into a daily tool for advice, emotional support, and spiritual guidance, how can we ensure that artificial intelligence truly benefits those who turn to it in moments of need?
The erosion of truth is not just about losing respect for facts, it's also about the dignity we're discarding along the way. Truth Decay isn't a problem that any one person can solve, but helping society learn how to ferret out the truth is a good place to start.
What can be done to confront disinformation in an environment where content moderation is increasingly viewed as overly partisan and social media transparency has declined? Educating the public on disinformation tactics could help, though concerns about politicization persist.
Research
Sep 16, 2024
How media narratives intersect with DMDU to inform and to leverage the complexities of modern contemporary public challenges.
Sep 4, 2024
The cover story explores findings from the 2024 State of the American Teacher survey. Another feature explores the implications that generative artificial intelligence might have for social media manipulation.
Sep 3, 2024
In this report, the authors provide an overview of Ukrainian efforts to counter Russia's disinformation war and identify relevant lessons for the United States and allied militaries.
Aug 8, 2024
The decline of local media in the United States creates vulnerabilities to adversarial influence. Supporting local journalism is essential for strengthening democracy and ensuring timely detection of security threats.
Jul 25, 2024
In 2020, fewer Black Americans believed the false claims of widespread election and voter fraud than their white counterparts did. What lessons can be learned from Black Americans' resilience to disinformation?
Jul 24, 2024
China's disinformation is dangerous. Just as the Japan-U.S. alliance has strengthened to enable a more robust deterrence against possible kinetic action, so too should the allies consider ways to strengthen their collective ability to respond to disinformation operations.
Jul 9, 2024
AI companies claim they have a laser focus on ensuring that their products are safe. But these claims are undercut when insiders paint a familiar picture of a culture of negligence and secrecy that dismisses warnings and hides evidence about unsafe practices. So what can these companies do differently?
Apr 15, 2024
What might China's future disinformation operations against Taiwan focus on? And how can Taipei and its partners combat them? China would likely have at least five discrete audiences for disinformation operations with specific lines of effort and goals for each.
Expert Insights
Mar 13, 2024
The author highlights the challenges of tackling the myriad safety harms that arise from artificial intelligence–generated images and provides considerations for U.S. policy to safeguard the authenticity of images on the internet.
