TecHRI Highlights AI Risks at CEPOL Training Webinar

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training – CEPOL, hosted a webinar on Wednesday dedicated to understanding and countering the role that artificial intelligence plays in the spread of online antisemitism. Alongside the four speakers was TecHRI’s Projects and Partnerships Manager Marija Ljubinkovic, who shared the Institute’s work on antisemitism and Holocaust distortion and denial. Her presentation, focusing on understanding AI tools – both the risks and their potential for combating antisemitism online, also shared insights from TecHRI’s recent work with major social media platforms. 

The webinar, designed to equip law enforcement officials with the ability to recognize and combat antisemitism, referenced TecHRI’s most recent project, Human vs. AI to demonstrate AI chatbots’ ability to understand online hate as humans do. The study showed that generative AI chatbots can detect, flag, and even preemptively redirect harmful content, with the aim of training the chatbots to mirror human monitors.

Ljubinkovic emphasized AI’s potential harmful role such as when leveraged for the creation of hateful chatbots which were introduced on Gab in 2024. She also invited the participants to read the Fighting Online Antisemitism (FOA) report published in March in partnership with TecHRI, which focuses on the threats of Gab’s unregulated social media space.