The existential threat from cyber-enabled information warfare
By Herbert Lin, June 28, 2019
Corruption of the information ecosystem is not just a multiplier of two long-acknowledged existential threats to the future of humanity – climate change and nuclear weapons. Cyber-enabled information warfare has also become an existential threat in its own right, its increased use posing the possibility of a global information dystopia, in which the pillars of modern democratic self-government – logic, truth, and reality – are shattered, and anti-Enlightenment values undermine civilization as we know it around the world.
Corruption of the information ecosystem poses the possibility of a global information dystopia, in which the pillars of modern democratic self-government are shattered
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 75 Issue 4
Keywords: Cyber-enabled information warfare, anti-Enlightenment, existential threat, information dystopia, information ecosystem, information environment
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics, Technology and Security
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Herbert Lin
Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover In...
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