Research Topics
Cyber Conflict
Cyber conflict & the use of offensive cyber operations or active cyber defence as an element of International Relations. Governance of the cyber domain: cyber norms, confidence building measures and international law.
Cyber-Security & Strategies
Cybersecurity & cyber defence best-practices: vulnerability disclosure, cyber ranges, bug bounties and the evolution of security controls. Peace and security implications of the cybercrime ecosystem & ransomware. Analysing cyber strategies of allies and adversaries.
Hybrid Threats & Information Warfare
Information warfare, cognitive threats, memetic warfare and the use of synthetic media to influence democracies.
Publications
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Mateusz Łabuz published a peer-reviewed article entitled A Teleological Interpretation of the Definition of DeepFakes in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act – A Purpose-Based Approach to Potential Problems With the Word “Existing”. The article offers a detailed analysis of the definition of deepfakes in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. It focuses on the purposes behind…
Archive
- Lena and Mateusz published an article in the newspaper “Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik”
- Mateusz co-authored book
- Peer-reviewed article on deepfakes
- OpEd on deepfakes and election campaigns in Disruptor Tech Media
- Article on the need to upgrade German active cyber defense, published by the Internationale Politik
- Peer-reviewed article on regulating deepfakes in the AI Act
- Policy commentary on synthetic media and its influence on political advertising
- Peer-reviewed paper on Cyber Operations in the Wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip published
- Article on Cyber- and Information-Wars in “Auftrag”
- OpEd on US tech-authoritarianism and EU dependencies by Heise.de
- OpEd on synthetic media abuse in hAI Magazine
- OpEd on NCII published by EUObserver
- Peer-reviewed article published in “Politics & Policy”
- Policy report on NCII published!
- Addressing Child Sexual Abuse Materials in peer-reviewed article
- OpEd on tech-authoritarianism published in Golem.de
- OpEd for Tagesspiegel Background on LLM-Grooming
- Policy report on deepfakes and sexual abuse
- OpEd for Tagesspiegel Background on “memetic warfare”
- Policy Report “The Pervasive Influence of AI on Global Political Campaigns 2024”
- Peer-reviewed article on defining deepfakes in the AI Act