Jim is joined by very special guest Lutz Güllner, Head of Strategic Communications at the EU’s European External Action Service, to discuss disinformation challenges in a big election year, and how breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence alter this threat. 

Along with Jim’s AI-expert colleague Pete Wilson, Lutz kindly sets out his perspectives from the frontline of the EU’s efforts to tackle coordinated disinformation campaigns.  

It is a challenge that requires action across a wide perimeter of the EU’s policymaking remit, stretching from sanctions policy, to societal education, to the responsibilities of tech platforms; as well as to the EEAS’s own EUvsDisinfo website, which we guarantee is utterly unlike any other EU online material you have ever read.  

All this is very much in focus amid recent high-profile deepfakes and the EU’s own imminent encounter with the voters: the 6-9 June European Elections, the largest multi-national democratic exercise in the world.  

In this new era, to protect our democracy, the integrity of elections needs to be able to withstand almost perfect imitation of reality. 

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