For more than a decade, Dr Siobhán Martin has been kind enough to invite me to run a strategic communications workshop at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Until 2024, my presentation had changed little from one year to the next, but for my course yesterday I made a radical update to integrate #AI into the content.
Using ChatGPT/Gemini/... and other large language models is fundamentally changing (or it *should* change) communications for diplomats, military officials, and civil servants.
Security concerns about data protection are of course a key challenge.
However, it's often possible to 'sanitize' the input/prompt so that the results are still useful without compromising sensitive data. (E.g.: make the query personally non-identifiable, provide a broad but specific description of the situation, and ensure basic due diligence by turning off "memory" and "train the model on my data" settings etc.)
Also, many requests refer to outbound communication (think 'public diplomacy', press releases, interviews) instead of internal processes or intelligence (as in military intelligence, not that of the user :-).
In short, this can 5x your effectiveness and creativity to up your persuasion game.
Your opponents/adversaries/enemies are already doing it. The "methodology arms race" is on.
Why not step up the game...?
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**This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.