About This Episode
In 2020, telling people that organized actors were using bots to shape what the public believes got you called a conspiracy theorist.
The one audience that didn't need convincing was the national security community, which had been thinking about the battle for perception long before it had a commercial market.
Now, the problem has a name — cognitive warfare — and it has changed shape. The target is no longer the information environment. It is cognition itself, and AI has collapsed the cost of attacking it. Blackbird CEO Wasim Khaled returns to All Quiet to walk through what narrative attacks look like now, who is actually getting hit, and why monitoring the problem was never the mission.
