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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is by now routinely leveraged by extremist actors across the world and ideological spectrum, and uses of the technology will only diversify in the future. This session aims to examine these uses, but also to reflect on the best way to apprehend them scientifically - not only from a methodological point of view but also from a broader historical-political and ethical perspective.
Stephane Baele is Professor of International Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), and Honorary Associate Professor of Security and Political Violence at the University of Exeter (UK). He has written extensively on (violent) extremist actors' communications, from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, working on empirical cases from the Rwandan genocide radio to far-right image-boards, and from incel digital communities to (neo-)Nazi propaganda. Recently, he published AI Extremism: Technologies, Tactics, Actors (Dublin: VOX-Pol) with Lewys Brace.
Lewys Brace is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science, programme coordinator for the MSc Security and Data Science, and Co-Director of the University of Exeter's Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2), where he specialises in data science, extremism, terrorism, cybercrime, and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). His work has appeared in journals such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Perspectives on Terrorism.
The webinar series on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics is co-organized by C-REX and the Canadian Network for Research on Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES). The series aims to facilitate a much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, practical and professional challenges that arise when researching the far right.
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