Publish at June 04 2024 Updated June 04 2024
Propaganda remains a weapon in both peace and war. It can be used to falsely legitimize a group's power and image. Jihadists, Russian or Chinese forces, extreme right-wing groups and many others use technical tools to achieve their ends. In an age of democratizing artificial intelligence, specialists such as Hugo Micheron of Sciences Po worry about what could happen in the near future.
Elections are happening all the time, and more than ever, people are trying to undermine them by polarizing public opinion. Nowadays, it's very easy to create false accounts that will galvanize the different sides of a social debate, leading to a world that moves away from the truth to what comforts them.
All the more so as the expert points out that today's algorithms belong to American and Chinese forces, among others. He would therefore like to see Europe as a whole equip itself with a force to counter these attacks on democracy by artificial intelligences. A war on information has begun online, and it seems that political reaction is still lacking.
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