Iran’s use of AI

The conflict in Iran reveals urgent lessons about AI as a weapon of war and statecraft.

Led by one of Washington’s top experts on Iranian strategy, military doctrine, and the IRGC, a Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) panel provides an assessment of how the Iranian regime has used autonomous systems and machine learning to expand its reach; how AI tools have supercharged propaganda campaigns and cyber-enabled information warfare; and in the financial realm, how emerging technologies have enabled large-scale fraud and illicit funding of Tehran’s proxies.