"Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse.
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"Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse. Within seconds, it identifies a vulnerability to jealousy and violence. At negligible cost, it generates a deepfake video of marital infidelity and delivers it to the soldier’s device. An hour later, the soldier — an experienced warfighter — is psychologically neutralized, driven to a catastrophic personal act. This chilling scenario captures the 21st century’s newest battlefield: the human mind."
I included an almost identical scenario in a wide-ranging strategic #intelligence assessment of threat applications of #DeepFake #AI technology when that tech was still in early development ~10 years ago. I'm often intrigued by the length of time between some of my futures intelligence assessments and when they either occur in the real world or become widespread in the public conversation.
Anyway, this is a good article about cognitive warfare. And I wish more people understood that for example, in the case of Russia, we have been at war for many years...it's just that only one side knows it's in a war. #disinformation https://warontherocks.com/2025/09/the-dialectic-of-deception-john-boyd-and-the-cognitive-battlefield/
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"Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse. Within seconds, it identifies a vulnerability to jealousy and violence. At negligible cost, it generates a deepfake video of marital infidelity and delivers it to the soldier’s device. An hour later, the soldier — an experienced warfighter — is psychologically neutralized, driven to a catastrophic personal act. This chilling scenario captures the 21st century’s newest battlefield: the human mind."
I included an almost identical scenario in a wide-ranging strategic #intelligence assessment of threat applications of #DeepFake #AI technology when that tech was still in early development ~10 years ago. I'm often intrigued by the length of time between some of my futures intelligence assessments and when they either occur in the real world or become widespread in the public conversation.
Anyway, this is a good article about cognitive warfare. And I wish more people understood that for example, in the case of Russia, we have been at war for many years...it's just that only one side knows it's in a war. #disinformation https://warontherocks.com/2025/09/the-dialectic-of-deception-john-boyd-and-the-cognitive-battlefield/
@Nonya_Bidniss I wish I could meet you someday. I would have so much to learn from you.
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@Nonya_Bidniss I wish I could meet you someday. I would have so much to learn from you.
@wendynather Well tbh in retirement I'm trying to forget a lot
and there are some very amusing things that I wouldn't be able to share...but I still have thoughts and tend to see everything in a "how can I weaponize this" frame -
@wendynather Well tbh in retirement I'm trying to forget a lot
and there are some very amusing things that I wouldn't be able to share...but I still have thoughts and tend to see everything in a "how can I weaponize this" frame@Nonya_Bidniss Exactly. I’m sure you’re not completely out of stories.
