Currents
Deputy Director of the Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Kris McGuffie ‘97, MANPTS ‘19 reflects on the currents that transported her through two Middlebury degree programs and into a new field.
Kris McGuffie
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
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- McGowan 210-A
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- (831) 647-4158
- kmcguffie@middlebury.edu
Kris McGuffie is a researcher of violent extremism and disinformation. Her research interests include the use of technology to mitigate global harms, violence prevention intervention strategies, and information inoculation and related approaches to strengthening communities against disinformation.
Within the technology industry, she has worked on cross-functional teams to build and refine natural language processing models for Trust & Safety applications. Formerly the Deputy Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, her research within academia centered around violent and radicalizing discourse in online spaces, nefarious use of generative AI, and targeted community-based interventions that prevent the spread of extremist violence and ideologies.
Research Centers
Publications
“The Radicalization Risks Posed by GPT-3 and Advanced Neural Language Models” (with Alex Newhouse), Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, September 9, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06807
“The Industrialization of Terrorist Propaganda” (with Alex Newhouse and Jason Blazakis), Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models, October 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09203
“Saving face: Law enforcement must recognize pitfalls of facial recognition technology” (with Alex Newhouse), The Hill, July 18, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/452917-saving-face-law-enforcement-must-recognize-pitfalls-of-facial