GIFCT’s research arm, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), is hosting its first event in a two-part virtual workshop series on Artificial Intelligence and Violent Extremism Extremism.

This workshop will feature presentations from expert panelists discussing their latest research, assessing how terrorists and violent extremists are weaponizing artificial intelligence to produce propaganda, mobilize recruitment efforts, and manipulate political outcomes.

Panelists

• Achi Mishra is an AI Ethics Engineer at Polygraf Inc., focusing on identifying and mitigating ethical concerns regarding AI governance and detection. Previously, she was a researcher for the ASSIST Lab at UC Santa Cruz where she completed her M.S. in Computational Media.
• Daniel Siegel is a Master’s student at Columbia University (SIPA) focusing on the digital strategies of extremist and state actors and their exploitation of artificial intelligence models in influence operations.
• Meili Criezis is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), a GNET Contributor, and an Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC) Fellow. She is currently a PhD student at American University, focusing research on extremism in online spaces, the Islamic State, white supremacism, and gender and extremism.

If you would like to access a recording of this workshop series, please contact GNET.