Mark Finlayson is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. He also served as one of the chairs of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, a top conference on AI that was hosted in Miami for the first time this fall.
Modern technologies like social media are making it easier than ever for enemies of the United States to emotionally manipulate U.S. citizens.
U.S. officials warn that foreign adversaries are trying to produce tremendous amounts of false, misleading information online to sway public opinion in the U.S. Just this July, the Department of Justice announced it had disrupted a Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign that used nearly one thousand fake social media accounts in an attempt to spread disinformation.
While AI is commonly used on offense in disinformation wars to generate large amounts of content, AI is now playing an important role on defense, too.
Mark Finlayson, a professor at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing, is an expert in training AI to understand stories. He has spent more than two decades studying the subject.
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