GSI has been tracking how misinformation spreads on social media and why, in recent years, it's spreading more rapidly. In order to avoid spreading misinformation or disinformation, Bliss urges everyone to be patient and fact-check with multiple legitimate sources.
GSI Executive Director Nadya Bliss and Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming Director Nancy Cooke organized workshops that informed the Computing Community Consortium’s recently released report “Assured Autonomy: Path Toward Living With Autonomous Systems We Can Trust.” The report is the result of a year-long effort by the CCC and over 100 members of the research community and outlines the challenges and shortcomings that need to be addressed so that autonomy can sustainably fuel a long-lasting transformation, and provides a set of recommendations moving forward.
The Fulton Schools human systems engineering program shows the field’s benefits for not only industry, transportation, and defense, but education and social progress.
Most phishing victims experience a fraudulent transaction around 5 days after getting phished, new research shows. ZDnet talked to GSI's Adam Doupe and the CDF research team.
ASU Professor of Psychology and Director of the Canine Science Collaboratory, Dr. Clive Wynne, will discuss why and how dogs form such successful bonds with humans.
Aptima Founder & CEO Daniel Serfaty will discuss how the future of work will be be dependent on our ability to thoughtfully engineer new human-AI "multi-species" systems.
Experimental artist Dr. Lance Gharavi will discuss his perspective on the latest collaboration between CHART and Ars Robotica from 10:00-11:30am in this virtual event.
In the latest #CatalyzingComputing podcast, GSI's executive director and Computing Community Consortium council member Nadya Blisss speaks on global security and the history of graph analytics.
The ASU News Co/Lab helps people juggle the relentless stream of information that bombards us daily and become smarter media consumers. By improving media literacy, they hope to stem the spread of disinformation.
An algorithm, called Defend, is being developed by GSI's ASU professor Huan Liu & doctoral student Kai Shu to scrutinize news being shared on social media and warn consumers of its potential falseness. Read this EdScoop article for more.
GSI's Cybersecurity Education Consortium talked to ASU Professor of Practice Kim Jones, who offered tips on how to implement a successful internship program virtually.
ASU engineers are developing a program that not only will detect fake news, but also explain what is wrong about it, to help reduce the spread of disinformation online.
Disinformation increases social divisions and undermines our democracy. ASU Research Scientist Scott Ruston says that defending ourselves against this willful deception is part of our civic duty — and explains how to do so.
ASU Global Security Initiative’s Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency pivots focus, providing new studies on supply chain preparedness and economic complexities
Anything connected to the internet is vulnerable to hacking. That includes hospital equipment, and that is of special concern as hospitals deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Arizona PBS talked about those concerns with Nadya Bliss, Executive Director of GSI.
GSI Executive Director Nadya Bliss joins ASU researchers to provide a few quick tips to protect yourself from fake or misleading news during this time.
Nadya Bliss, executive director of GSI joined Mark Brodie on KJZZ to talk about misinformation related to the outbreak and how to differentiate between fact and fiction.
ASU Now asked GSI Executive Director, Nadya Bliss to weigh in on how to recognize what’s real and what’s malarkey, and what you can do to find the truth.
NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering Speaker Series. GSI Executive Director Nadya Bliss joins esteemed speakers from across the nation, sharing their expertise in their field, discussing the grand challenges our world faces, and answering probing questions on what can be done.
Global Security Initiative integrated the Cybersecurity Education Consortium into the initiative's portfolio, complementing its current interests in cybersecurity research and workforce development projects.
How can we determine fact from fiction in this rapidly shifting information landscape? This American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) session was organized and moderated by CCC Council Member, and GSI Executive Director, Nadya Bliss.
GSI partnered with ASU's New College and IBM to host a girls-only event at West Campus for more than 200 middle school students interested in cybersecurity
CHECRS project seeks to build a human-assisted autonomous tool for finding and analyzing software vulnerabilities that also learns from and incorporates human strengths of intuition and ingenuity.
GSI helped organize the Code 8.7 Conference at the UN on how AI and computational science can help combat human trafficking. GSI Director Nadya Bliss discusses some takeaways from the conference.
GSI helped organize the Code 8.7 conference to bring the computational research and artificial intelligence (AI) communities together with those working to combat modern slavery and human trafficking.
Nadya Bliss explains why the National Intelligence Strategy is important, how it relates to research, and lists her three biggest takeaways from the document.
GSI's Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency works with Department of Homeland Security components like the TSA to improve operations and security.
Paulo Shakarian tells us how mining the dark web can throw light on cybercriminals and thwart their impending attacks. He likens his research strategy to that of a soldier running reconnaissance on the enemy.
On this bonus episode, we interview Nancy Cooke about her research at the Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming and the Past Presidents Forum.
Professor Umit Ogras is one of three DARPA Young Faculty Award winners at ASU this year. GSI's DARPA Working Group helps craft concepts and proposals to ensure they are meeting DARPA needs and matching proposal requirements.
GSI experts working with ASU's Center for Strategic Communication to proactively identify military maneuvers in the Baltics using mass media and social media.
Nadya Bliss, director of Arizona State University’s Global Security Initiative, talks about the Facebook congressional testimony and what questions she thinks should have been asked during the hearing.
GSI took a new approach to an old problem, using advances in big data and visualization technology to create a conservation planning tool that will help philanthropists, governments, and NGOs better prioritize conservation efforts around the world.
California passed a law allowing you to see how your personal data is being used by companies and ask for it to be deleted. Arizona doesn't have these protections, but that may change in the future.
Director Nadya Bliss discusses the future of Artificial intelligence, its potential impact on defense missions, and the need for future AI research to be interdisciplinary
The Washington Post's new platform for cybersecurity issues, The Network, tabbed GSI Director of Strategy Jamie Winterton to serve on its panel of experts.
In Arizona, companies such as Waymo and Uber are testing self-driving vehicles. Learn more about the concept of swarm intelligence from ASU’s Autonomous Collective Systems Laboratory, and how it applies to self-driving vehicles and other technologies.
Teamwork extends beyond sports and can reshape productivity. Researchers at Human Systems Engineering at ASU’s Polytechnic School are examining how teams work under pressure. See how the team experiences of the Phoenix Rising Football Club are not so different from the medical field and other professions.
Technology is not created to reflect the rich diversity of people that use it, says Jessica Rajko. She contends that adding more voices in the design process will create not only more inclusive tech experiences but better technology overall.
Technology is always moving fast. However, smart home devices have quickly accelerated into one of the top gifts to give this holiday season. Items such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, etc. are gifts many are asking for or receiving this year.
We’ve portioned out more of the Colorado River’s water than it can deliver. How do we navigate the rapids of water management without capsizing under growing demand? Dave White of ASU’s Decision Center for a Desert City explains how to stay afloat.
Nadya Bliss, director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University, presents a talk titled "Computer Science and _____: Better Together, The Value of an Interdisciplinary Approach" at the annual symposium of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), Oct. 11, 2017.
In light of the Equifax hack and other high-profile data breaches, Winterton shares why compromised consumer information may be the least of our data security worries.
Credit-monitoring company Equifax announced last Thursday that the company experienced a data breach, leaving the personal data of more than 143 million Americans at risk.
Two of the largest marketplaces on the dark web have been shut down after an international investigation. AlphaBay and Hansa were shut down, with AlphaBay having more than 250,000 listing for illegal drugs and toxic chemicals. Paulo Shakarian, a Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor at Arizona State University, will tell us more.
As the Senate Intelligence committee meets to discuss Russian attempts to hack into local election systems, we’ll talk with Jaime Winterton to learn just how safe our system is. Local pollster Mike O’Neil will talk about the results and impact of the Georgia congressional race. The Kino Border Initiative is a binational effort to help those who are deported to Mexico at the border.
Most people don't like talking about risk. Andrew Maynard of ASU's Risk Innovation Lab does it for a living. Learn how he thinks we can all tackle risk challenges by framing them as values.
We’ve heard more about personal cybersecurity over the past several months than in the previous 20 years. (May we never hear the words “private email server” again.) You may not be high on Putin's to-hack list, but there are still good reasons to protect yourself online, and there is no better place to start than a Future Tense happy hour.
As the director of Arizona State University’s Global Security Initiative, she is resolved to tackling these “wicked” problems. To do so effectively, she suggests embracing complexity, not rejecting it out of fear of failure, and integrating understanding from a broad range of fields and disciplines.
Nadya Bliss, Director Global Security Initiative at ASU, speaks at a Beyond COP21 event in DC hosted by The Christian Science Monitor on April 20, 2016.
Nadya Bliss, Director of the Global Security Initiative, Arizona State University, discusses the ubiquity of cyber vulnerabilities at an event on the cybersecurity skills gap in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
GSI launches the Center for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics, which will take a proactive, interdisciplinary approach to the issue of cybersecurity.
