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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

More important, McKay’s work demonstrated that computer models can predict the likely fate of proposed legislative amendments, as well as the paths by which lobbyists can most effectively secure their desired outcomes. In some cases, the objective of that money is obvious. There are three basic challenges involved.

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Influence Operations Kill Chain

Schneier on Security

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. Since the 2016 US presidential election, there have been an endless series of ideas about how countries can defend themselves.

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Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government

Schneier on Security

On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections. On November 9, 2018, President Donald Trump started tweeting about the senatorial elections in Florida and Arizona.