As convener, I will chair the panel on Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and Disinformation at the main session of the 14th edition of the International Scientific Media Conference ‘Digital revolution and artificial intelligence as challenges for contemporary societies’, that will be hosted in hybrid format on 17 November 2023 at the University of Bielsko-Biala (Poland), organized by the Faculty of Transportation and Management, Department of Economic and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Polish Studies, University of Bielsko-Biala, co-organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Military History, Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte, the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Journalism and Social Communication, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, the Faculty of Journalism, Department of Theory and Practice of Journalism, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Lviv Polytechnic National University. Here the full conference program and the MS Teams link to attend online: http://konferencjamedia.ubb.edu.pl/index.php/program.
Main session I Part 10.00-11.00
Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and Disinformation
Moderator: dr Marco Marsili, Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy
10.00-10.15
Prof. nadzw. Glen Segell
University of Cambridge, England
The Case of Iraq: Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, and Disinformation
10.15-10.30
PhD Jan Kallberg
Army Cyber Institute, United States
POWs in the Age of the Internet
10.30-10.45
prof. Marco R. Provvidera
Provvidera Law Offices P.C. – New York, NY USA/LUISS University Business School, Amsterdam (NL)
New Technologies and Information/Cognitive Warfare–The Quest for a Legal Paradigm
10.45-11.00
prof. nadzw. Ignas Kalpokas
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania/SGH Warsaw School Economics, Poland
Synthetic Media as Background Epistemic Threats
11.00-11.15 Przerwa
II Part 11.15-13.00
11.15-11.30
dr Suzanne Waldman, mgr Farid Pesteh
Defence Research and Development Canada
Mapping Online Influence Operations: Moving Beyond the Kill Chain Approach
11.30-11.45
dr Carlos Leone
Centro de Estudos Globais, Open University Lisbon, Portugal
The Decline of Reality
11.45-12.00
dr Vaiva Šalaševičiūtė
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
AI-Generated Problems: Coordinated Actions Against Synthetic Media
12.00-12.15
mgr Francesco Ancona
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
The role of Generative AI in spreading disinformation: current uses and possible applications in the civil and military domain
12.15 – 13.00 Dyskusja