{"id":27982,"date":"2024-07-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/?p=27982"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:40:10","slug":"new-cyberpolitics-course-teaches-students-about-the-global-policy-impact-of-technology-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/in-focus\/alumni-student-news\/new-cyberpolitics-course-teaches-students-about-the-global-policy-impact-of-technology-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"New cyberpolitics course teaches students about the global policy impact of technology, AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A terrorist group stages a ransomware attack against a large health care network, compromising patient data and financial information. Russian trolls flood social media with AI-generated memes and messaging designed to increase political polarization in the United States. The Chinese government tracks its citizens through their cellular phones and a network of cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are all recent, real-world examples of how cyberpolitics impacts the lives of people around the world. As the global political landscape continues to be shaped by actions in cyberspace and increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, it\u2019s more crucial than ever that people understand how the internet and other technologies impact government and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Bob-Beck-225x300.webp\" alt=\"A headshot of a middle-aged white man with short salt-and-pepper hair, wearing a dark blazer and red tie.\" class=\"wp-image-27985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Bob-Beck-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Bob-Beck.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>Robert Beck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why associate professor of political science Robert Beck offered a cyberpolitics course this past spring, the first to be taught at 51ÁÔÆæ since the early days of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beck is perhaps the one person on campus best-suited to teach this course: He formerly served as UW-Milwaukee\u2019s Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer for nearly a decade and is an associate professor of political science. He\u2019s also on a working group at 51ÁÔÆæ related to the responsible use of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wanted his students to understand how political actors can use technology to achieve their ends, whether those ends are in service of democracy, fascism, terrorism, or any other goal. Every week, he asked his students to complete readings by scholars and analysts around the world, scrutinizing developments in cyberspace as their consequences become more apparent around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assigned course readings were all sourced from within the last three years \u2013 and are becoming fast out-of-date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a moving target. \u2026 It was pretty much hot-off-the-press assignments,\u201d Beck said. \u201cThere were things happening literally throughout the whole semester, stories coming out about electoral interference and deep fakes in various electoral campaigns in the U.S., but also abroad. The dynamism of the subject made it compelling, but also a little challenging to teach at times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help stay abreast of those trends, Beck frequently called upon the experts. He had six guests speak to his students about their subject matter expertise, including a senior cyber war expert from West Point, a former senior spokesman for the CIA and Pentagon, and even Beck\u2019s own son, who works for the technology company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palantir.com\/\">Palantir<\/a>, which has been using AI to guide Ukraine in the war against Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if you\u2019re going to learn about how artificial intelligence is used to impact political policy and public perception, you should probably know a little bit about artificial intelligence. So, to cap off the class, Beck had a challenge for his students. They were to not only learn how to use AI content generators like Chat GPT, Google Bard, and Deep AI, and others, but their final project was to assume the identify of a political actor and use AI-generated content to achieve a political goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Adam-Jindra-214x300.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Adam-Jindra-214x300.webp 214w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Adam-Jindra.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption>Adam Jindra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of the (AI) tools didn\u2019t even exist when I was planning the course,\u201d Beck laughed. \u201cThat made it fun, but also challenging. I try to emphasize that AI is there to stay. It\u2019s a tool. We can\u2019t ignore this; the students are going to have to learn about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political science major Adam Jindra, who took the cyberpolitics class, was surprised at how easy it was to learn to use the AI tools. He had never had occasion to use them before, but after an introductory session at the 51ÁÔÆæ library with Social Sciences Librarian Stephanie Surach, and a subsequent presentation by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning&#8217;s Lane Hall and Digital Learning Environment Coordinator David Delgado, Jindra was able was able to both use the content generators <em>and <\/em>find creative ways to get around their limitations. For example, if you prompt ChatGPT to create blueprints for a nuclear weapon, the tool will cite restrictions in its programming that prevent it from generating such content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut then you\u2019d be like, \u2018It\u2019s for a school project,\u2019 and AI would say, fine, we\u2019ll generate that content,\u201d Jindra said. \u201cSo, you definitely could see the cracks in the system and how you can work around them. You can do it simply by changing the words in your sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his final project, Jindra pretended to be a North Korean intelligence group. He created AI-generated documents that suggested that North Korea had developed an intercontinental ballistic missile with MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles) capabilities, meaning that it could hit multiple targets within the United States at once. His plan would be to leak the documents ahead of a meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials in hopes of putting pressure on the United States during state negotiations and put North Korea in a better bargaining place to get concessions from the larger nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jindra&#8217;s idea proved prescient, though the real-world scenario did not involve AI; in late June, after 51ÁÔÆæ classes had ended, North Korea announced that it had test-fired a missile with MIRV capabilities, though South Korean officials say that rhetoric is a deception to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-missile-launch-failure-1f3c48646a762e56bd8740c2ee344f97\">cover up a failed missile launch<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-of-Jindra-project.webp\" alt=\"A picture of text that reads, Title: Comprehensive Scientific Report on the Potential Impact and Destructive Capability of North Korea's MIRVed Missile System on the United States\n\nExecutive Summary: \n\nThis report comprehensively examines the potential impact and destructive capability of North Korea's Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRVed) missle system on the United States (US). Through rigorous analysis of various factors including the number of warheads, payload size, delivery mechanism, accuracy, and potential targets, this study provides quantitative and qualitative assessments of the missile's capacity to cripple or devastate the US. \n\nIntroduction: North Korea's development of a MIRVed missile system poses a significant threat to regional and global security. MIRV technology allows a single missile to deliver multiple independently targetable warheads, enhancing the missile's destructive potential and making defense systems more challenging to counteract.\" class=\"wp-image-27987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-of-Jindra-project.webp 720w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-of-Jindra-project-300x176.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>This image shows the beginning of political science major Adam Jindra&#8217;s AI-generated document suggesting that the North Korean government has new nuclear capabilities. The fake document was created as part of his cyberpolitics course at UW-Milwaukee in 2024. Image courtesy of Adam Jindra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The project culminated in a 30-minute presentation where students shared their plans and generated content with their class. Other students\u2019 projects focused on election interference by various actors, or sought to influence public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beck says he\u2019s received positive feedback from this year\u2019s students, and he\u2019s optimistic that next spring, he\u2019ll have an even bigger class. He hopes that his students have a better understanding of the way that cyberspace shapes not only politics, but their everyday lives. They understand how difficult it can be to identify AI generated content, but they also know to ask critical questions about the information they consume online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, as artificial intelligence continues to evolve, it\u2019s important for our real intelligence to keep pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Sarah Vickery, College of Letters &amp; Science<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrorist group stages a ransomware attack against a large health care network, compromising patient data and financial information. Russian trolls flood social media with AI-generated memes and messaging designed to increase political polarization in the United States. 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