Tech Events at Dockrill Room, Department of War Studies, (KIN 628), London

Dr Lukasz Olejnik presents IO Factory, a research system he built to study autonomous influence campaigns run by AI agents. Experiments with tens of thousands of simulated users show how agents coordinate, push for set changes in audience attitudes and feed what they observe into their next moves. He'll cover what the experiments do and don't establish outside the simulation, how that lines up with documented AI use in real influence operations, and what happens when systems start choosing their own objectives. Olejnik is an independent cybersecurity and privacy researcher with a computer science PhD from INRIA and author of Propaganda (CRC, 2024). Free, 13:00 to 15:00 in King's War Studies on the Strand.

Jon Lindsay at King's War Studies on his book Age of Deception, which argues that widespread trust in cyberspace is precisely what enables espionage and subversion - the vulnerability is the cooperation, not the code. Hosted by the School of Security Studies in the Dockrill Room.

Join the Military Innovation Network (MIN) for a Welcome Event for an evening of research discussions, networking, and engagement.