Russia Reportedly Using Artificial Intelligence in Disinformation Campaigns to Erode Western Support for Ukraine

October 2, 2023

The Russian government is amplifying its influence operations through artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies, spreading disinformation and eroding trust in policies supportive of Ukraine. Notably, they use 'influence laundering' by disseminating their messages via allies within nominally independent organizations.

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Alleged deployer
russian-government, fsb, federal-security-service, disinformation-spreaders, misinformation-spreaders
Alleged developer
russian-government
Alleged harmed parties
ukraine, general-public, democracy, american-public, general-public-of-the-european-union, truth, epistemic-integrity, electoral-integrity, journalistic-integrity, media-integrity, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/602

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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