A resurgent North Atlantic Treaty Organization should play a leading role in fighting the growing aggression of authoritarian states in the online battlespace, says a new report from civil society groups.
The report, released by the Montreal Institute for Global Security and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Canada, warns that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are working to expand their strategic influence and reshape global norms.
Their shared objectives include undermining U.S. leadership, discrediting western alliances—NATO in particular—and framing the West as hypocritical and neocolonial, the report says.
“Recognizing the scope of the threat is no longer enough,” says the report Wired for War: How Authoritarian States are Weaponizing AI Against the West. “The authoritarian playbook is clear, and so too must be the democratic response.”…