Dr. Nicole Matejic

Author. National Security focused Behavioural Economist. PRVE Pracademic.

Crimes of Influence: Generative Artificial Intelligence-led Crime as a Service

‘Crimes of Influence’ – crimes that seek to influence people towards harmful outcomes – will be one of the defining features of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-led cybercrime. With an ability to persuade and influence at potentially unavoidable economies of scale, crimes of influence...

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The Battlefield Within: The information war has many targets, its most valuable is you

Operations in the information environment (OIE) are experiencing something of a renaissance thanks to social media and the democratisation of information.

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NATO in 2040: An Information Odyssey

This paper was written for NATO’s Innovation Hub as part of their Warfighting in 2040 report. All rights are reserved by NATO Allied Command Transformation and this article is published here with their permission. To download a PDF, click here. Information operations (IO) has been experiencing something of a

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Apocalypse Near? A brief primer on Accelerationism.

This blog is intended as a brief primer on the complex concept of accelerationism – with a focus on terrorist organisations and their weaponisation of the concept as a pervasive, recurrent theme. From Muslims in Christchurch to Jews in Pittsburgh, Christians in Colombo and migrants in El Paso, recent attacks by

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Osama Bin Laden as the new ‘Saladin’: Two great parallels in Arab history

Two of the greatest parallels in Arab history : ‘Saladin’ and ‘Osama Bin Laden’, can be studied to gain an understanding of the Arab intellect toward terrorist operations and their underlying motivations.

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