This paper draws urgent attention to securing healthy and robust information supply chains within the UK and building resilience to adverse influences. It identifies points of vulnerability in today’s information supply chains and sets out five actionable recommendations that can be taken by government to safeguard its epistemic security, setting an example for others.

This briefing paper explores the impact of AI-enabled disinformation and fake content on democratic processes and investigates the potential obligations of states to protect elections from it. The paper argues that although not currently legally bound to do so, states should take proactive measures to defend elections from AI misuse.

Open-source software (OSS) development is a culture and set way of working that involves the free and open sharing of software projects for further study, modification, and use. In the past couple of years, decades-old OSS tradition has been challenged by the development of increasingly capable AI. This report reflects on areas of emerging consensus...

Concerns about the impacts of new and emerging technologies on democratic processes and institutions are not new. This briefing paper provides a primer on the current state of generative AI capabilities, and outlines four pressing mechanisms by which generative AI challenges the stability of democracy.