Int'l project combats online antisemitism through artificial intelligence - The Jerusalem Post

The Alfred Landecker Foundation has announced its support for an initiative that will aim to combat the spread of antisemitism and hatred online by using artificial intelligence (AI). Titled "Decoding Antisemitism," the project was financially backed by the Foundation, which donated an additional 3 million Euros to the budget. By supporting the project, the Foundation is joining forces with the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin, King's College London and other renowned scientific institutions in Europe and Israel. The international team, comprised of discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians, is currently focusing its efforts on developing an AI-driven approach to identifying online antisemitism, a feat that may be harder to achieve than expected. Studies have shown that the majority of antisemitic defamation is expressed in implicit ways – through the use of codes for instance ("juice" instead of "Jews") and allusions to certain conspiracy narratives or the reproduction of stereotypes through images.