Artificial Intelligence (AI)
‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part II: Identifying Extremist Networks
August 8, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
How Big Tech Designs its Own Rules of Ethics to Avoid Scrutiny and Accountability
August 6, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
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 ...