Oct. 1, 2023
Warnings about cognitive warfare are in the air. Rand Corp. recently published a study on the effects of generative A.I. on China’s “cognitive domain operations”, otherwise known as cognitive warfare, in the Taiwan Strait, concluding that the new technology of A.I. provides the capability for China to engage in more widespread, more sophisticated, and harder-to-spot cognitive warfare on Taiwan through social media manipulation. In particular, generative A.I. is perfect for turbocharging “astroturfing” campaigns which are coordinated efforts to make propaganda look like genuine popular sentiment by linking myriad fake accounts, posts, and reactions together in spreading a message, which creates the impression that an idea has wide popular support, when in fact it comes from a propaganda unit of, in this case, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army or similar groups.
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