{"id":1034595,"date":"2026-09-11T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034595"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:35:05","slug":"generative-ai-a-new-tool-in-malis-information-war-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/11\/generative-ai-a-new-tool-in-malis-information-war-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI a new tool in Mali&#8217;s information war: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI is increasingly used for information warfare in Mali, according to a study released Wednesday, with the conflict&#8217;s factions mastering the technology to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis by the Timbuktu Institute, a Dakar-based think tank, found that generative AI was being used to &#8220;amplify and accelerate&#8221; existing faultlines within the west African country, which is serving as an &#8220;open-air laboratory&#8221; for the technology&#8217;s use in warfare.<\/p>\n<p>The Sahelian nation has been wracked since 2012 by a serious security crisis, notably fuelled by violence from jihadists, along with criminal gangs and armed separatists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI is increasingly used for information warfare in Mali, according to a study released Wednesday, with the conflict&#8217;s factions mastering the technology to varying degrees. The analysis by the Timbuktu Institute, a Dakar-based think tank, found that generative AI was being used to &#8220;amplify and accelerate&#8221; existing faultlines within the west African country, which is serving as an &#8220;open-air laboratory&#8221; for the technology&#8217;s use in warfare. The Sahelian nation has been wracked since 2012 by a serious security crisis, notably fuelled by violence from jihadists, along with criminal gangs and armed separatists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034601,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034595\/revisions\/1034601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}