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Incident 602: Russia Using Artificial Intelligence in Disinformation Campaigns to Erode Western Support for Ukraine

Description: The Russian government has been stepping up its foreign influence campaigns by using artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to spread disinformation and sow distrust in policies supportive of Ukraine. Part of the strategy includes carrying out influence laundering operations by disseminating their messages to the American public via allies inside nominally independent organizations, according to a recent declassified analysis. This incident is an evolving project.
Editor Notes: This evolving archive focuses on tracking reporting on developments in Russian disinformation campaigns using AI when discussed as overarching collective incidents. Not all events fit neatly within AIID criteria, as some lack distinct, tidy descriptions, making it less effective to file numerous reports. This concern is a matter of contending with differences in emergent genre spaces in some journalism versus our database structure. To address this, Incident 602 can serve as a catch-all for reporting on AI-generated Russian disinformation events, incidents, and issues that are described in journalism in more overarching than discrete ways. However, Incident 585, "Kremlin-linked entities using generative AI for Russian disinformation in Latin America," is kept separate due to its distinct and interesting nature, offering potential as a unique archive. The numerous "incidents," such as bots generating posts, present challenges in reporting, as journalistic coverage tends to merge these incidents into transnational narratives, often without exploring specific details in-depth. This lack of detail makes it difficult to create distinct incident reports. Nonetheless, exceptions exist for distinct elements, such as Incident 198, "Deepfake Video of Ukrainian President Yielding to Russia Posted on Ukrainian Websites and Social Media," and Incident 573, "Deepfake Recordings Allegedly Influencing the Slovakian Election," both of which receive dedicated stories.

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Alleged: Russian government developed an AI system deployed by Russian government , FSB and Federal Security Service, which harmed Ukraine , General public , European public , Democracy and American public.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
602
Report Count
7
Incident Date
2023-10-02
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MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

4.1. Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Malicious Actors & Misuse

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Intentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Twitter bot network amplifying Russian disinformation about Ukraine war, researcher says - ABC NewsRussia's information war expands through Eastern EuropeInformation Warfare in Russia’s War in UkraineRussia’s New Underpowered Weapon – Artificial Intelligence+2
Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say
AI Helps Uncover Russian State-Sponsored Disinformation in Hungary
Twitter bot network amplifying Russian disinformation about Ukraine war, researcher says - ABC News

Twitter bot network amplifying Russian disinformation about Ukraine war, researcher says - ABC News

abc.net.au

Russia's information war expands through Eastern Europe

Russia's information war expands through Eastern Europe

apnews.com

Information Warfare in Russia’s War in Ukraine

Information Warfare in Russia’s War in Ukraine

foreignpolicy.com

Russia’s New Underpowered Weapon – Artificial Intelligence

Russia’s New Underpowered Weapon – Artificial Intelligence

cepa.org

Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say

Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say

nytimes.com

The role of AI in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Interview with expert Anton Tarasyuk

The role of AI in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Interview with expert Anton Tarasyuk

globalvoices.org

AI Helps Uncover Russian State-Sponsored Disinformation in Hungary

AI Helps Uncover Russian State-Sponsored Disinformation in Hungary

darkreading.com

Twitter bot network amplifying Russian disinformation about Ukraine war, researcher says - ABC News
abc.net.au · 2022

As Russian tanks rolled across the Ukraine border on February 24, Russia's state-controlled or affiliated news organisations flooded social media with Kremlin disinformation narratives.

Within a week, Twitter had banned about 100 of these a…

Russia's information war expands through Eastern Europe
apnews.com · 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — As bullets and bombs fall in Ukraine, Russia is waging an expanding information war throughout Eastern Europe, using fake accounts and propaganda to spread fears about refugees and rising fuel prices while calling the West…

Information Warfare in Russia’s War in Ukraine
foreignpolicy.com · 2022

In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and throughout the ongoing conflict, social media has served as a battleground for states and non-state actors to spread competing narratives about the war and portray the ongoing conflict in …

Russia’s New Underpowered Weapon – Artificial Intelligence
cepa.org · 2023

The Kremlin wants to use AI to increase its control over information. The plan faces a fatal flaw: facts.

“Ukraine will be liberated from the Nazis,” declared an ethereal, electric blue AI-powered video of Russian far-right leader Vladimir …

Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say
nytimes.com · 2023

Russia’s strategy to win the war in Ukraine is to outlast the West.

But how does Vladimir Putin plan to do that?

American officials said they are convinced that Mr. Putin intends to try to end U.S. and European support for Ukraine by using …

The role of AI in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Interview with expert Anton Tarasyuk
globalvoices.org · 2023

Wars of the 21st century are often describe as high-tech and increasingly dependent on Artificial Intelligence (AI): US occupation of Afghanistan, Russia's invasion of Ukraine --- though the latest Hamas attack on Israel also shows that ove…

AI Helps Uncover Russian State-Sponsored Disinformation in Hungary
darkreading.com · 2023

Arms deliveries. EU sanctions. Ethnic minorities. These were the three topics Hungarian media reported on most frequently between fall 2021 and spring 2022, according to two researchers who analyzed thousands of articles published by Hungar…

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A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.

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