Featured Speaker at NATO Academic Conference on Digital Resilience
I was a featured expert at NATO’s academic conference on societal resilience in the digital age, held in London. The conference gathered leading academics, defense strategists, and technologists to address how democratic societies can confront the rising threats of disinformation, cognitive warfare, and the strategic use of emerging technologies.
I presented in Session II: The Impact of Social Media on the Resilience of Society, which focused on the dual role of digital platforms as tools for civic engagement and vectors for strategic manipulation. Drawing on our lab’s research into human digital twins and AI-powered misinformation detection, I outlined how generative models – such as large language models – can be weaponized in coordinated influence operations, and emphasized the urgency of building resilient information ecosystems and promoting ethical, interdisciplinary strategies to defend democratic discourse.