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| 06/09/2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
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This event, a collaboration between Penang Institute and the US Embassy, explores AI's transformative potential and challenges related to global information integrity.
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About The Speaker
Doowan Lee is Chief Strategy Officer at EdgeTheory, an AI company that provides detection, prioritization, and visualization solutions on influence dynamics in the information environment. He is an information security executive specializing in how to leverage data and AI to detect malign information operations and promote reliable and accurate information. Heโs also a member of the Social Media Task Force at Georgetown University. In addition, Lee works with Trust in Media, Military Veterans in Journalism, and New Debate as a senior advisor. Lee has extensively published in leading journals and magazines on how to mitigate and prevent the harms of malign information in content supply chains. Before joining EdgeTheory, he worked at leading AI companies in Silicon Valley. He also taught at the Naval Postgraduate School for more than 11 years as a faculty member and principal scientist. There he developed and executed operational and communications technology projects with federal R&D agencies to support the U.S. governmentโs efforts to combat violent extremist networks and mis/disinformation.
Abstract
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a paradigm shift for how we consume, generate, share, amplify, and analyze digital content. Weโve seen an increasing number of AI-generated audio, videos, and images that sow confusion and distrust about both public and private institutions. Weโve seen mounting attacks on election procedures and governance by inauthentic content around the world from Ukraine, Slovakia, Singapore, Bangladesh, India, the UK, the Philippines, Venezuela, and the US. Trust in institutions, to include government, media, financial institutions, education etc, continues to decline as noted by public opinion polls. AI-enabled phishing and social engineering further exacerbate the harms of mis/disinformation. However, generative AI also provides tremendous potential and use cases to scale and speed how we can discern quality information from misinformation and disinformation. By ingesting, normalizing, and classifying vast volumes of social media, news, broadcast, dark web, and cyber data, AI models can greatly assist us to accelerate and expand how we map and understand where narratives comes from, how theyโre amplified, and even what they may attempt to affect. These use cases can empower journalists, communications professionals, researchers, and analysts to calibrate strategic communications, communicate effectively with intended communities, and promote transparent and reliable information in an increasingly opaque and complex information environment.
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Dr. Tan Lee Ooi, Director of Research at Penang Institute, holds a PhD in Southeast Asia Studies from the National University of Singapore. His research includes cyber politics, religious modernity, and Malaysian politics. He has written two books, Dinamik Ruang Siber dalam Gerakan Reformasi di Malaysia and Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia, and contributes opinion pieces to Malaysian media on politics, culture, and media.