Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Big Tech is Overselling AI as the Solution to Online Extremism
August 5, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
VOX Pol Virtual Round Table: Artificial Intelligence and Extremism
August 1, 2024VOX-Pol Virtual Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence and Extremism, Wednesday 13 December. (Please note, some slides are blurred due to sensitivities around ongoing research) This roundtable is organized by the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence on online extremism in the context of the ExID, Extreme Identities, project funded by the EU Horizon2020 NORFACE programme, Democratic Governance in Turbulent ...
Using AI to monitor the internet for terror content is inescapable – but also fraught with pitfalls
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Grievance, Pseudohistory, and AI: A Powerful Recipe for The Generation of Extremist Narratives?
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
AI Extremism: Technology, Tactics, Actors
April 25, 2024Over the past decade, two major phenomena have developed in the digital realm. On the one hand, extremism has grown massively on the Internet, with sprawling online ecosystems hosting a wide range of radical subcultures and communities associated with both ‘stochastic terrorism’ and the ‘mainstreaming of extremism’. On the other hand, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ...
The Role of the Internet in Radicalisation to Violent Extremism
September 18, 2023This chapter critically examines the role that the Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT) play in violent extremism. The chapter specifically focuses on arguments surrounding radicalisation as a pathway to terrorism and how individuals become radicalised due to different radicalisation processes and theories. Based on this critical analysis, the chapter argues that the Internet ...
Regulating terrorist content on social media: automation and the rule of law
September 18, 2023Social-media companies make extensive use of artificial intelligence in their efforts to remove and block terrorist content from their platforms. This paper begins by arguing that, since such efforts amount to an attempt to channel human conduct, they should be regarded as a form of regulation that is subject to rule-of-law principles. The paper then ...
Artificial Intelligence and Countering Violent Extremism: A Primer
September 18, 2023Radicalisation can take place offline as well as online. To what extent the internet plays a role remains contested. Doubtless, there are radical and extreme communities online. This report looked into the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) applications to contribute to countering radicalisation. Mapping the possibilities and limitations of this technology in its various forms, ...
Counterterrorism Yearbook 2020
September 18, 2023This year’s Counterterrorism Yearbook draws upon 19 contributing authors, each a renowned thought leader in their field, to promote practical counterterrorism solutions by reviewing a global range of terrorism developments and counterterrorism responses. ASIO’s Director General, Mike Burgess commends the publication for its ‘valuable contribution to the public discourse on counterterrorism’. While maintaining its geographic ...