China's AI Cognitive Warfare: Manipulating Taiwan's Reality?
China’s campaign on Taiwan has already begun. Cognitive warfare has been integral to Beijing’s military strategy for decades. And now, Taiwan faces a new generation of threats as AI supercharges China’s reach through everyday social media. But Taiwan is fighting back with AI-powered tools of its own. Our guests guide us through the evolution of China’s non-kinetic war machine, Taiwan’s counterstrategies and what democracies worldwide could learn by studying Taiwan’s digital front line. Host: Divya Gopalan Featuring: Samuel Straw (head of research, Taiwan Digital Diplomacy Association) and Mariah Thornton (teaching fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science). For more on Taiwan’s fact-checking and whole-of-society response to cognitive warfare, visit these sites: Forward Alliance Doublethink Lab Taiwan FactCheck Center Cofacts MyGoPen Fake News Cleaner FactLink Taiwan Digital Diplomacy Association
