As we are grappling with AI in our lives on Earth, is AI is converging with space technology? Is that website you are sharing links of with your friends an authentic website? Or are you helping to widen the net of inauthentic networks? As we consume and use the Internet in our daily lives, are we opening ourselves to online harms? Are we media literate even as we live and breathe online offerings?
In case you missed them, read some of them here.
AI in Space Technologies: A Singapore Case Study
By FIT Research Fellow Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, and co-writers Iuna Tsyrulneva and Chee Yong Sean Chua
Singapore, Asia’s smartest city in 2024, is treading towards integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with space technologies. This report examines the impact, potential, and challenges of this convergence, based on insights from five space experts across Singapore’s public, private, and academic sectors.
Inauthentic Local Lifestyle and News Websites and the Challenge for Media Literacy
By Senior Fellow and Head/CENS Benjamin Ang and Associate Research Fellow Dymples Leong
A previous report on networks of inauthentic news sites and the risk of hostile information campaigns (HICs) in Singapore described websites that “present themselves primarily as independent news outlets from different regions across the world” but (in fact) originate from a single operator or owner in one location. This report highlights the risks of similar networks with potential to be used for HICs. Websites that present themselves as local lifestyle or current affairs sites pose special challenges to media literacy.
The Role of Internet Consumption on the Witnessing of Online Harms
By CENS Research Fellow Gulizar Haciyakupoglu, and co-writers Edson C. Tandoc Jr. and Goh Zhang Hao
This policy report investigates how gender, daily Internet activities, and the use of Internet-enabled devices, can impact one’s frequency of witnessing online harms. Building on a national survey conducted in Singapore in December 2022 by the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet, this study suggests that men engage in daily Internet activities and use Internet-enabled devices more frequently than women. This partly explains why men witness more online harms than women. The policy report calls for further studies into the relationship between online harms witnessing and perpetration, along with greater attention to gender-based differences, when studying and drafting policies on online harms and emerging online threats.
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