UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Dongwon Lee, professor within the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has obtained a fellowship on the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany. He will study methods to higher perceive misinformation on a worldwide scale and discover using synthetic intelligence (AI) to make it quicker and simpler to spot false data on-line.
CAIS, which funds analysis on the societal alternatives and challenges of digital transformation, will host Lee from July by way of September.
An interim head of IST’s Department of Privacy and Cybersecurity Informatics and faculty affiliate on the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Penn State, Lee mentioned he’s excited concerning the fellowship and the analysis alternative it supplies.
“To maintain a trustworthy and healthy digital ecosystem, it is critically important to improve our understanding of global patterns of fact-checking, especially under the growing influence of generative AI and AI hallucinations,” he mentioned. “Through the new collaborations I hope to establish in Germany and across Europe, I aim to gain access to new European fact-checking datasets and develop novel research questions.”
Lee will use a set of about 200,000 fact-checked claims from around the globe, written in 39 completely different languages, to study how false or deceptive data spreads and how individuals strive to confirm it. He goals to reply two principal questions:
- How do claims and fact-checking efforts change over time, throughout completely different locations and between languages?
- How is generative AI affecting the creation of claims and the work of fact-checkers?
The purpose is to assist fact-checkers, journalists and authorities leaders higher perceive misinformation on a worldwide scale.
“This prestigious fellowship recognizes Dongwon’s outstanding contributions to addressing one of today’s most urgent challenges,” mentioned Andrea Tapia, dean of the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. “As he engages with scholars and partners around the world, Dongwon will represent the spirit of discovery, leadership and public impact that defines Penn State and the College of IST. We are immensely proud of this achievement.”
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