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. Ben is an avid AI filmmaker and his video's regularly are among the most watched AI films on YouTube.
WRITINGS
- Why Putin’s Faith in Russia’s ‘Homegrown Midjourney’ Is Misplaced, The Moscow Times
- Russia-China Alliance Would Build Artificial Intelligence For Dictators, The Moscow Times
- Putin Wants Russia to Win the Artificial Intelligence Race. Here’s Why it Won’t, The Moscow Times
- Russia’s New Underpowered Weapon – Artificial Intelligence, Center for European Policy Analysis
- Over 100 additional papers are available on Ben's CEPA page
QUOTES
- A breakaway region in Europe is asking Russia for protection. Here’s what to know, CNN
- How do BRICS states position themselves on the Middle East conflict?, Meet The Press Reports
- 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)
AI VIDEOS
Ben produces videos with the assistance of AI image and voice generators and animators:
Alexandria Ultima Episode 2
Alexandria Ultima Episode 1
Beyond Earth