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 in addition to The Moscow Times, Persuasion, The Diplomat, and Asia Times. His works have been reprinted in over a dozen languages. Ben speaks Arabic, French, Farsi, and Russian.
WRITINGS
- China Now Dominates Open Source AI. Does It Matter?, The Diplomat
- US-China race for AI’s next frontier is already on, Asia Times
- Is China Waking Up To The Dangers of AI?, The Diplomat
- Next Up: Authoritarian-Friendly AI, Persuasion
- 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)