DisinfoDocket 5 October
DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
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* Circuit Court Ruling on Border Searches Deals Serious Blow to Privacy Rights
* Access to information: Journalists need strong legislation with effective implementation
Highlights
- Trump chooses top spy boss to run new AI taskforce (BBC, 5 October)
- What’s the harm? Fact checking reveals the true scale of AI fakery (Full Fact, 5 October)
- The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer (WIRED, 1 October)
- AI biohazard hype must not divert attention from the real risks we face now (Nature, 5 October)
1. Academia & Research
- AI Breakout Capacity: A Middle-Power Path Between Racing and Dependence (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 28 September)
- Study finds that to counter misinformation online, we need to copy its style (Phys, 5 October)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told (BBC, 5 October)
- What could make AI self-regulation work? (Atlantic Council, 2 October)
- Military AI and autonomous systems: views in The Strategist (ASPI, 5 October)