About

Ben Dubow

CTO & President, Omelas · Senior Fellow, CEPA · Penn Kemble Fellow, NED

Ben is a leading expert on AI and international relations. He currently serves as CTO and President of Omelas, creator of the leading AI-powered foreign policy workbench, as a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, and a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.

He has developed technology that has surfaced imminent terrorist attacks, mapped vast networks of Russian influence online, and uncovered rifts in the ruling coalition in Iran. Data and analysis from that work have been covered in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Foreign Policy, among others. His research on Russian and Chinese information operations has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

He has written more than 100 pieces for CEPA, in addition to The Moscow Times, Persuasion, The Diplomat, and Asia Times. Those works have been reprinted in over a dozen languages. He has been interviewed by BBC, CNN, the Financial Times, and Meet the Press.

Before Omelas, Ben worked at Google, where he helped design the Redirect Method — counter-messaging on jihadi search terms — and played a lead role in removing ISIS content from YouTube. He was secretary of Code To Inspire, which taught Afghan women to code and find work online. He began his career tracking jihadi, white nationalist, and Iranian propaganda. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He speaks Arabic, French, Farsi, and Russian.

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
• Here’s how Russia’s RT spread propaganda in the lead-up to the election
  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• 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)
• American experts demand equating TV channels to pedophiles
  Sputnik (Latvian)

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