• Ben Dubow

    AI, international relations, consciousness

    CTO and President of Omelas, creator of the leading AI-powered foreign policy workbench. Senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. Interviewed by BBC, CNN, the Financial Times, and Meet the Press. Research on Russian and Chinese information operations has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and The New England Journal of Medicine.
    Award-winning films on consciousness selected for over a dozen festivals.

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  • How Russia Developed the First Killer AI Drone Despite Struggling in the AI RaceWriting

    How Russia Developed the First Killer AI Drone Despite Struggling in the AI Race

    The Moscow Times

  • Putin’s Perp Walk in the CaucasusWriting

    Putin’s Perp Walk in the Caucasus

    CEPA

  • China Now Dominates Open Source AI. Does It Matter?Writing

    China Now Dominates Open Source AI. Does It Matter?

    The Diplomat

  • Russiaworld, Iran and a Cascade of CollapseWriting

    Russiaworld, Iran and a Cascade of Collapse

    CEPA

  • Russian AI Struggles in Its Own LanguageWriting

    Russian AI Struggles in Its Own Language

    The Moscow Times

  • US-China race for AI’s next frontier is already onWriting

    US-China race for AI’s next frontier is already on

    Asia Times

  • Is China Waking Up To The Dangers of AI?Writing

    Is China Waking Up To The Dangers of AI?

    The Diplomat

  • Russia’s Weakness Illuminated by Syrian CollapseWriting

    Russia’s Weakness Illuminated by Syrian Collapse

    CEPA

  • Moldova Loosens Russia’s GripWriting

    Moldova Loosens Russia’s Grip

    CEPA

  • Next Up: Authoritarian-Friendly AIWriting

    Next Up: Authoritarian-Friendly AI

    Persuasion

  • One and a Half Cheers as Iran Elects a More Moderate PresidentWriting

    One and a Half Cheers as Iran Elects a More Moderate President

    CEPA

  • Embarrassingly for the Kremlin, Russian AI Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own DisinformationWriting

    Embarrassingly for the Kremlin, Russian AI Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Disinformation

    The Moscow Times

  • Raisi’s Death Exposes Scarcity of Iranian LeadersWriting

    Raisi’s Death Exposes Scarcity of Iranian Leaders

    CEPA

  • New Caledonia Riots: The Azerbaijan FactorWriting

    New Caledonia Riots: The Azerbaijan Factor

    The Diplomat

  • Honeyed Words Can’t Conceal Xi’s Disdain for RussiaWriting

    Honeyed Words Can’t Conceal Xi’s Disdain for Russia

    CEPA

  • Moldova — Russia’s Last Chance to Derail the Journey to Europe?Writing

    Moldova — Russia’s Last Chance to Derail the Journey to Europe?

    CEPA

  • Delight and Dismay After Iran’s Failed Missile AttackWriting

    Delight and Dismay After Iran’s Failed Missile Attack

    CEPA

  • Transnistria: ‘The Motherland’ Doesn’t Want You Right NowWriting

    Transnistria: ‘The Motherland’ Doesn’t Want You Right Now

    CEPA

  • Russian Elections Have a Purpose, But Not Evicting the RegimeWriting

    Russian Elections Have a Purpose, But Not Evicting the Regime

    CEPA

  • Will Russia Be an Artificial Intelligence Disinformation Victim or Perpetrator?Writing

    Will Russia Be an Artificial Intelligence Disinformation Victim or Perpetrator?

    The Moscow Times

  • Moldova’s EU Referendum Will Sort the Sheep From the GoatsWriting

    Moldova’s EU Referendum Will Sort the Sheep From the Goats

    CEPA

  • Why Putin’s Faith in Russia’s ‘Homegrown Midjourney’ Is MisplacedWriting

    Why Putin’s Faith in Russia’s ‘Homegrown Midjourney’ Is Misplaced

    The Moscow Times

  • Moldova — Farewell Then Russia and Your Eurasian DreamWriting

    Moldova — Farewell Then Russia and Your Eurasian Dream

    CEPA

  • Russia-China Alliance Would Build Artificial Intelligence For DictatorsWriting

    Russia-China Alliance Would Build Artificial Intelligence For Dictators

    The Moscow Times

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