EXPERIENCE
Ben currently serves as CTO and President of Omelas, a firm that tracks authoritarian influence online, as a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy and Analysis, and a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. He has written over 100 pieces for the Center for European Policy and is the author of a chapter on the technical challenges of data summarization in the upcoming book Bad Data, published by O'Reilly. Ben speaks Arabic, French, Farsi, and Russian.
WRITINGS
- Is China Waking Up To The Dangers of AI?, The Diplomat
- Next Up: Authoritarian-Friendly AI, Persuasion
- Embarrassingly for the Kremlin, Russian AI Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Disinformation, The Moscow Times
- Putin Wants Russia to Win the Artificial Intelligence Race. Here’s Why it Won’t, The Moscow Times
- Over 100 additional papers are available on Ben's CEPA page
QUOTES AND APPEARANCES
- Why Assad's fall is a blow to Putin, The Times
- Putin 'certain' to win as Russian presidential election voting continues, BBC
- A breakaway region in Europe is asking Russia for protection. Here’s what to know, CNN
- Misinformation in the Latino Community, Meet The Press Reports
- Big Tech caught in information war between west and Russia, Financial Times
PUBLIC TALKS
- Context Matters: Generative AI, the spectrum of worldviews, and understanding propaganda's appeal, Data Science Salon Podcast
- How disinformation campaigns work, from Russia to Latin America, Chuck Toddcast
- Ben Dubow on Detecting and Countering Malign Influence Operations, OODA Loop
- AI in the Age of Disinformation: The Problem or The Solution? AI Boost Lithuania
- War By Other Means: How Influence Warfare Subverts Democracy, DEFCON
- While The Bots Distracted You: Overt Russian Information Operations, DEFCON
ATTENTION FROM FREE PRESS
- Study Shows How Russian, Chinese Disinformation About COVID-19 Evolved During The Pandemic, Radio Free Europe
- Russia’s Worldwide Influence Relies on YouTube, Euractiv
- Google Stays Silent On Russia's Growing Internet Threats, Bloomberg
- China is pushing a big COVID-19 lie, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Here’s how Russia’s RT spread propaganda in the lead-up to the election, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Trump’s Campaign Ads Run on Chinese State Media YouTube Channel, Bloomberg
- Russian Disinformation on YouTube Draws Ads, Lack Labels, Reuters
DISDAIN FROM KREMLIN PRESS
- American conditions require equating TV channels and pedophiles, RIA Novosti
- American experts demand equating TV channels to pedophiles, Sputnik (Russian, Latvian)