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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Influence

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.

Influence

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

Radicalisation

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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The PRVE Pracademic

The One With Rasputin

The PRVE Pracademic

The One with the Terrorism potentials of Chat GPT & GAI Models

Influence

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.

Influence

NATO in 2040: An Information Odyssey

Behavioural Economics

Citizen decision-making in a contested information environment

Published as part of the Australian National University, National Security College Futures Series, 2020. We know a lot about how and why people make decisions. Insights from behavioural economics and cognitive science are now often used to inform government policies in areas as diverse as taxation, social services and healthcare.

Influence

The Fake News Kung Fu

Absolutely. Critical for all organizations, especially those that exist to help people and communities. https://t.co/JNI4bVsEnL — Siobhan Heanue (@siobhanheanue) January 28, 2020 Just like the Chinese Martial Art of Kung Fu, dealing with fake news requires study, learning, practice, patience, energy and time. Fake news does not happen