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.
1.Stanford Univ, Ctr Int Secur & Cooperat, Cyber Policy & Secur, Stanford, CA 94305 USA 2.Stanford Univ, Cyber Policy & Secur, Hoover Inst, Stanford, CA 94305 USA 3.House Armed Serv Comm, Washington, DC USA
Recommended Citation:
Lin, Herbert. The existential threat from cyber-enabled information warfare[J]. BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS,2019-01-01,75(4):187-196