The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence-generated texts creates enormous opportunities for the economy and society, but also introduces potential risks. Can language models like ChatGPT be weaponized in ways that have adverse implications for national security, including elections and battlefield command and control? Does defense have any advantages in a world of large-scale AI-generated misinformation? Are there potential upsides of AI-generated text in terms of democratic governance or national security? In this talk, Kreps brings to bear a range of original experimental evidence to suggest that the answers to all of these questions might be affirmative and offers guidance on how to harness the prospects and guard against the perils of generative AI.
About the speaker
Sarah Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work lies at the intersection of technology, politics, and national security, and is the subject of five books and a range of publications published in academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Advances, Vaccine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open, American Political Science Review, and Journal of Cybersecurity, policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, and media outlets such as CNN, the BBC, New York Times, and Washington Post. She has a BA from Harvard University, MSc from Oxford, and PhD from Georgetown. Between 1999-2003, she served as an active duty officer in the United States Air Force.