AU conference focuses on impact of AI, cybersecurity and more
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Artificial intelligence, propaganda and information online are all hot topics in the cyber world.
On Thursday, Augusta University held a conference to discuss AI in our everyday lives.
The conference was held for the U.C. Army Cyber Center of Excellence. It allows the two to work together to preserve national security and to strengthen Augusta as a cyber security hub.
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While it makes life easier, professors at Augusta University and the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence discussed the potential danger artificial intelligence has to you and even our democracy.
Conferences like these allow the two organizations to learn from each other and then spread that awareness to the community.
A big topic was informational warfare.
Dr. Craig Albert is a professor at Augusta University.
He describes informational warfare as outside factors influencing your decision-making process through social media.
The goal of this is to negatively affect U.S. democracy.
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But he says understanding topics like these is especially important with the presidential election.
“If any of the external actors want to influence United States presidential elections without the knowing it, these different nation states, through social media, can push directly tailored operations to U.S., s on social media without you knowing trying to subliminally switch your thinking or mess up your decision-making processes,” Albert said.
He says the biggest target right now for informational warfare is Tik-Tok.
But he says people here are the ones who should feel the safest.
Why’s that?
“Because we have Augusta University, so at the forefront of the education aligned with the United States Army, Cyber Center of Excellence on Fort Eisenhower, as well as other agencies working together through this partnership and through this collaboration, providing the best defense,” said Craig Albert, AU professor and graduate director for intelligence and security studies.
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Albert urges people to stay off Tik-Tok.
But if you decide to continue using it, he wants you to be aware of its potential danger.
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