This panel explores how AI reshapes both the military and information dimensions of modern conflict — from autonomous targeting systems, drone swarms, and battlefield decision-support tools to synthetic media, algorithmic manipulation, and expanding disinformation ecosystems that destabilize shared reality. It examines how today’s media and communications ecosystems amplify hybrid warfare and accelerate the erosion of political communication in the post-truth / post-shame environment.

The discussion addresses the risks of weaponized AI in both kinetic and cognitive domains and opens space for considering democratic safeguards, ethical and legal standards, and the global norms needed to protect open societies in an era of contested truth and accelerating technological power.

PANELISTS

Lina Kushch
First Secretary, National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (Ukraine), Eglė Celiešienė
CEO, Researcher & Social Innovation Developer, Lithuanian College of Democracy (Lithuania), Marjan Zabrčanec Communications Specialist; Former Government Communications Director (North Macedonia), Col. Goran Vasilevski, Army Colonel (ret.); Former Head of the Military Service for Security and Intelligence, Ministry of Defence (North Macedonia).

Moderator, Jabir Deralla.