The current US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, has revealed that his department is testing AI-based tools as a way to fight “misinformation.”
In conversation with the State Department’s chief data and AI officer Matthew Graviss, he cited a number of initiatives – such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Washington’s Enterprise AI Strategy as the foundations for the ultimate goal – using AI to “advance our foreign policy.”
The second part of the push to equip the State Department with AI tools is to – “strengthen this institution.”
According to Blinken, his department is a leader within the government when it comes to testing and “harnessing” the technology. Some reports speak about this as combating whatever happens to be considered foreign disinformation.
And while on the subject of meddling, the Washington Times says AI tests are “part of an ambitious media monitoring and analysis project that spans the globe.”
...Blinken’s remarks reveal how the technology is used seemingly innocuously as a (translation and summarization) tool “in multilateral organizations;” but then he praised the ability of AI-powered tools to make mass surveillance (“monitoring”) cover a much larger number of media, making its scope and scale “vast,” as the report put it.
And also – combat “disinformation” – which Blinken quite dramatically refers to as “one of the poisons in the international system today.”
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Excerpt:
"In the wake of institutions having sought to coerce a large portion of the public into submission to lockdowns, masks, vaccines—global trust in the media is now at all time lows. Mass censorship did not help.
Lets look at a brief timeline since 2020[excerpt]
...They Wouldn’t Need To Censor Us if They Weren’t Lying
The lies surrounding Covid have woken many up many more to the reality of how capable the legacy media is at lying, as is the government. Similarly, Covid facilitated the awareness in millions that much of corporate mainstream “journalism” is nothing more than government propaganda.
Many independent journalists have already directly faced censorship as the war on disinformation grew out of 2016, which marked the rise of the age of fact checkers and the war on misinformation.
...While many understand that censorship started before Covid, many do not.
...The “Censorship industrial complex”, as Michael Shellenberger deemed it in the Twitterfiles, did not appear overnight.
....And despite the Covid censorship coming to light, the day isn’t saved. The Censorship industrial complex marches on."
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