Tag Archive: Cybersecurity

CSET Research Fellow Katerina Sedova discusses the possibility of Russian cyberattacks targeting the United States if the U.S. sanctions Russia for an invasion into Ukraine.

Research Analyst Micah Musser lays out the power and limitations of AI-generated disinformation in The Inoculation podcast.

CSET's Margarita Konaev weighs in on the DOD's list of technological priorities and vision for deliverable military capabilities.

In an interview with Grid, Katerina Sedova unpacks how artificial intelligence improves disinformation campaigns.

Privacy is Power

Foreign Affairs
| January 19, 2022

In an opinion piece for Foreign Affairs, a team of CSET authors alongside coauthors make the case for the use of privacy-enhancing technologies to protect personal privacy.

AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios

IEEE Spectrum
| January 3, 2022

CSET's Helen Toner and Andrew Lohn spoke with IEEE Spectrum about the dangerous implications of AI-enabled systems.

Part two of CSET's "AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns" is now available with insights examining how advances in AI could be exploited to enhance operations that automate disinformation campaigns.

AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns

Katerina Sedova, Christine McNeill, Aurora Johnson, Aditi Joshi, and Ido Wulkan
| December 2021

Artificial intelligence offers enormous promise to advance progress and powerful capabilities to disrupt it. This policy brief is the second installment of a series that examines how advances in AI could be exploited to enhance operations that automate disinformation campaigns. Building on the RICHDATA framework, this report describes how AI can supercharge current techniques to increase the speed, scale, and personalization of disinformation campaigns.

Part 1 of CSET's "AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns" examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning can influence disinformation campaigns.

Making AI Work for Cyber Defense

Wyatt Hoffman
| December 2021

Artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role in cyber defense, but vulnerabilities in AI systems call into question their reliability in the face of evolving offensive campaigns. Because securing AI systems can require trade-offs based on the types of threats, defenders are often caught in a constant balancing act. This report explores the challenges in AI security and their implications for deploying AI-enabled cyber defenses at scale.