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The MADCOM Future
How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Computational Propaganda, Reprogram Human Culture, and Threaten Democracy... And What Can be Done About It
From the Executive Summary: Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools will provide propagandists radically enhanced capabilities to manipulate human minds. Human cognition is a complex system, and AI tools are very good at decoding complex systems.
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Streaming Services Have a Conspiracy Theory Problem
Streaming services have a conspiracy theory problem, but for Alan Levinovitz, "the answer isn’t for Netflix and Amazon Prime to just remove the terrible 'documentaries.'"
Narrative Warfare
Contemporary wars are largely wars of influence and they will not necessarily be won by those with the most information or the most accurate data. They will be won by those effectively tell the meaning of the information and what difference it makes for the audience.
Narratives Are About "Meaning", Not "Truth"
Ajit Maan wrote for Foreign Policy on confusion about the distinction between ideas and narratives:
The MADCOM Future
How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Computational Propaganda, Reprogram Human Culture, and Threaten Democracy... And What Can be Done About It
From the Executive Summary: Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools will provide propagandists radically enhanced capabilities to manipulate human minds. Human cognition is a complex system, and AI tools are very good at decoding complex systems.
WNI Podcast Episode #1: What is Weaponized Narrative?
Joel Garreau and Braden Allenby discuss what's new about weaponized narrative, and why it's important.
Nine Links in the Chain
The Weaponized Narrative, Sun Tzu, and the Essence of War
That all war is a conflict of narratives is a premise worth considering. Each side claims to be more powerful or morally better than the other, and military action is both an extension of politics by other means and an extension of “propaganda of the deed.” Narratives around a conflict solidify when the winners get to write history. Further, when a war is not won outright, both narratives survive. Sometimes, the losing side’s narrative dies off. Other times, it persists or regenerates to spark a new conflict
The Age of Weaponized Narrative
Or, Where Have You Gone, Walter Cronkite?
Advanced information technologies are adding a new dimension to regional and global conflict and asymmetric warfare. The United States is an especially vulnerable target.
What’s New About Weaponized Narrative?
White Paper for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Weaponized Narrative White Paper produced for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. This paper is helpful in that it discusses in some depth the reasons why weaponized narrative isn’t just an incremental advance on traditional information warfare, but rather has deep implications for the future structure of institutions and societies.
The Seminal Weaponized Narrative White Paper for the Center on the Future of War, March 2017
White Paper for Future of War Conference, 21 March 2017
This is our original White Paper that helped introduce “weaponized narrative” into the language. It is the one that established that we are at an inflection point in history. A new battlespace and a new civilization are being born.