The existential threat from cyber-enabled information warfare. (4th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Herbert
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of the atomic scientists. Volume 75:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 187
• Page End: 196
• Publication Date: 2019-07-04
• Subjects: Cyber-enabled information warfare -- information ecosystem -- anti-Enlightenment -- existential threat -- information environment -- information dystopia; Nuclear energy -- Periodicals; Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- Periodicals; Nuclear energy -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals; Nuclear weapons -- Periodicals; Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Periodicals; Nuclear arms control -- Periodicals; 363.1799
• DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2019.1629574
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0096-3402

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Corruption of the information ecosystem is not just a multiplier of two long-acknowledged existential threats to the future of humanity – climate change and nuclear weapons. Cyber-enabled information warfare has also become an existential threat in its own right, its increased use posing the possibility of a global information dystopia, in which the pillars of modern democratic self-government – logic, truth, and reality – are shattered, and anti-Enlightenment values undermine civilization as we know it around the world.