Re: the role of knowledge (mis) representation in conflict

Politics has been described as war by other means 
<https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/10/28/politics-as-continuation-of-war-by-other-means/>.

Regardless of the degree of truth of that description, it is a win/lose 
proposition and thus inherently polarizing.  The only question is the 
extent to which the conflict will be carried.  One would hope that we 
could do better than #gofpau 
<https://www.google.com/search?q=%23gofpau&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS868US868&oq=%23gofpau&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.3528j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#bsht=CgRmYnNtEgIIBA> 
(good, old-fashioned politics as usual) for most of the affairs of life, 
in win/win propositions (as occurs in open markets).

On a less philosophical note, efforts like the Content Authenticity 
Initiative are headed in the right direction. 
https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#CAI3 | 
https://contentauthenticity.org/


Machine-readable metadata matters. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_document


In the meantime, artificial ignorance 
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artificial-ignorance-owen-ambur> plays a 
prominent role in supporting misinfo/disinfo and the news media are 
expert practitioners 
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/democratic-authoritarianism-owen-ambur/> 
of A<I>.  Moreover, like Putin, they seem to want to portray themselves 
as the victims rather than the perpetrators of the problem.

Owen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/



On 4/8/2022 12:09 AM, Paola Di Maio wrote:
> This is not a political thread, but I d like to leverage the critical 
> topic of the war in Ukraine to once again reiterate the importance of 
> adequate KR in getting facts straight
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> One of the reasons motivating this CG when I started it
> it was that after realizing that information is routinely fabricated, 
> ie  that knowledge is routinely mis-represented to influence and 
> manipulate public opinion and distort facts, the only thing I could do 
> is contribute s perspective gtom intelligent systems design.
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> Since we have excellent KR methods in AI, designed to model and uphold 
> truth using solid logic, and that AI technology is being used to 
> mediate most of the information the public receives it makes sense to 
> chime in.
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>   in addition to be advancing the state of the art in KR itself with 
> novel constructs and artefacts,r
> we should leverage the wealth of AI KR resources to
> expose misinformation and miserpresentation
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> I am compiling a set of resources showing how the mainstream media is 
> deliberately misrepresenting (faking) the facts of Ukraine .
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> I think it is important that the AI KR community appreciates once more 
> how misrepresentation reinforces false narratives and conflict, and 
> that a correct approach to modelling is imperative
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> Here for example, French war correspondent says that Ukrainian 
> government has been committing atrocities against Ukranian civil 
> population for over 8 years, causing thousand of casualties, but that 
> her evidence is being ignored
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hRkU7BFSl8&ab_channel=Tom 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hRkU7BFSl8&ab_channel=Tom>
>  (omission)\
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbiAGkBQ9HY&t=338s&ab_channel=ThalieThalie 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbiAGkBQ9HY&t=338s&ab_channel=ThalieThalie>
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbUS2vKCI0&ab_channel=Tom 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbUS2vKCI0&ab_channel=Tom>
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> Many more reports showing how mainstream media is misrepresenting 
> knowledge about Ukraine would benefit from a technical analysis from a 
> KR perspective
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkpIq3T-Zc&ab_channel=TheGrayzone 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkpIq3T-Zc&ab_channel=TheGrayzone>
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> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos

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