The New Information Wars
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
A collection of 5 posts
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.
Russia’s information war against the West is a comprehensive, coordinated effort to manipulate the information ecosystems of entire societies.
By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.
Now if a single moral judgment depends on a unit of analysis, then surely a political philosophy that imagines some sort of societal structure that maximizes some moral values (whatever they may be), must also depend on a unit of analysis.