Ben Graham Jones
Ben Graham Jones is a consultant specialising in emerging challenges to election integrity. He has served on more than thirty election observation, assistance, and advisory missions, including as Head of Mission, Media and Social Media Analyst, and Online Campaign Analyst.
Ben has contributed to WFD’s work since 2015, including on election expert missions to The Gambia, the Philippines, and Palestine. Ben has advised senior figures including multiple former heads of Government. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and King’s College London’s Department of War Studies and is a Churchill Fellow. Ben speaks English and French.
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This brief outlines the dual nature of AI as both a democratic opportunity and threat, highlighting how manipulative AI use endangers democratic rights and national security. It advocates a "progressive realist" approach to building resilience against these threats through strategic coalitions and makes policy recommendations for countering the manipulative use of AI.
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