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Lecture on the Information Space as an Asymmetric Competition
19 November, 2024 @ 19:00 - 21:30
On behalf of the Municipality of The Hague, the Brookings Institution invites you to a special lecture by Dr. Valerie Wirtschafter This link opens in a new tab, to be held on Tuesday 19 November at Leiden University’s The Hague Campus (Turfmarkt 99).
Dr. Wirtschafter (Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative) This link opens in a new tab will speak about The Information Space as an Asymmetric Competition. The information environment represents a new arena for asymmetric competition between democracies and autocracies. In this domain, tactics and capabilities vary based on the free flow of information and norms in the cyber domain. In her talk, Dr. Wirtschafter will highlight why the information domain is so contested in democracies, like the United States, the varying objectives and goals of foreign influence operations, recent evolutions in foreign malign influence tactics, including the growth of generative AI content, and strategies for responding to the threat.