About

Heather Ashby, PhD with overlaid text reading "GNSI Senior Non-Resident Fellow"

AT A GLANCE:
Principal Consultant, Corner Alliance

RESEARCH AREAS:
• Misinformation
• Disinformation
• Malinformation
• Deepfakes

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Heather Ashby is a Principal Consultant with Corner Alliance working at the intersection of national security and technology. In this role, she supports Corner Alliance’s work with the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate.

Heather Ashby served as the associate director for the United States Institute of Peace’s program on disruptive technologies and artificial intelligence and the acting director for USIP’s Center for Russia and Europe. She joined USIP after seven years with the Department of Homeland Security, where she worked on both domestic and international affairs issues.

Her research interests include misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and deepfakes. She explores how new and emerging technologies impact U.S. national security including the ethical and safe use of artificial intelligence and the ways the technology could be applied to advance peace. Dr. Ashby also continues to examine the Russian government’s foreign policy approach and its (and affiliated entities) use of disinformation and other tactics to undermine democracies and as a tool of conflict.

Dr. Ashby received her doctorate from the University of Southern California in 2014.

CONNECT / FOLLOW:
Linkedin: in/dr-heather-ashby-3b112878
Twitter: @DrHeatherAshby

PUBLICATIONS:
From Gaza to Ukraine, AI is Transforming War
Ink Stick Media

Pitting Existential Risks Against Near-Term AI Risks is a False Dichotomy
Ink Stick Media

Disinformation Casts a Shadow Over Global Elections
United States Institute  of Peace

A Role for AI in Peacebuilding
United States Institute  of Peace

Russia’s Africa Summit — and a Future for Wagner
United States Institute  of Peace

Russia’s Wagner Uprising Will Force a Kremlin Reshuffle in Africa
United States Institute  of Peace

What Does the Wagner Mutiny Mean for Putin and His War on Ukraine?
United States Institute  of Peace

What You Need to Know About Russia’s New Foreign Policy Concept
United States Institute  of Peace

What BRICS Expansion Means for the Bloc’s Founding Members
United States Institute  of Peace

Heather Ashby on Moscow’s Diplomatic Approach to the Russia-Africa Summit
United States Institute  of Peace


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