{"title":"First contact: integrating generative AI into digital diplomatic intelligence","authors":"Corneliu Bjola, Ilan Manor","doi":"10.1057/s41254-024-00333-w","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is opening up new possibilities for diplomatic intelligence by refining and enhancing processes of gathering, analyzing, and leveraging information through digital means. AI tools can automate tasks, identify patterns more efficiently, and provide real-time insights, enhancing the effectiveness of diplomatic decision-making. In light of these technological developments, we advance the concept of digital diplomatic intelligence (DDI) which we define as the use of Big Data and digital analytical methods to mitigate geopolitical uncertainty and provide informed and timely guidance for diplomatic decision-making. In this article, we examine how harnessing the power of data and algorithms effectively will require overcoming significant technical and organizational challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":47147,"journal":{"name":"Place Branding and Public Diplomacy","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Place Branding and Public Diplomacy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41254-024-00333-w","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is opening up new possibilities for diplomatic intelligence by refining and enhancing processes of gathering, analyzing, and leveraging information through digital means. AI tools can automate tasks, identify patterns more efficiently, and provide real-time insights, enhancing the effectiveness of diplomatic decision-making. In light of these technological developments, we advance the concept of digital diplomatic intelligence (DDI) which we define as the use of Big Data and digital analytical methods to mitigate geopolitical uncertainty and provide informed and timely guidance for diplomatic decision-making. In this article, we examine how harnessing the power of data and algorithms effectively will require overcoming significant technical and organizational challenges.
期刊介绍:
Place Branding and Public Diplomacy?is a pioneering journal and the first to concentrate on this fast-growing field. Its scope and reach is global and culturally unbiased. Its primary objective is to broaden the understanding of the nature purposes and benefits of both place branding and public diplomacy and to demonstrate how place branding and public diplomacy strategies are implemented in practice.Place branding is the practice of applying brand strategy and other techniques and disciplines - some deriving from commercial practice others newly developed - to the economic social political and cultural development of cities regions and countries. Public diplomacy is the process by which an international actor – often but not exclusively a country – conducts foreign policy by engaging a foreign public. Public Diplomacy and Place Branding are not synonyms but their overlaps are sufficient to justify a journal which considers both activities in their own right and at their point of convergence.Both Place Branding and Public Diplomacy are significantly but not exclusively concerned with reputation management.