Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. It's Friday, August 8th, 2025. I'm

narrator, Chris Elkins, voicing today's daily article written by Denison Forum's senior editor

for theology, Dr. Ryan Dennison. With yesterday's introduction of GPT-5, the latest and most powerful version of the popular

chat GPT, artificial intelligence is back in the news with the focus largely on how its

advancements will impact day-to-day life.

But while that story is important, today, I'd like to discuss a more subtle

way that AI is likely to change our lives going forward. Let's start with Gullexi, a Chinese company

that would probably prefer to stay out of the news, but has found itself at the center of a

growing international controversy. As Brett J. Goldstein and Brett

V. Benson, two professors at Vanderbilt University who specialize in international and national

security recently documented, Gullexe is, quote, emerging as a leader in technologically advanced

state-aligned influence campaigns, which deploy human-like

bot networks and psychological profiling to target individuals."

They go on to note that the company, which denies any official connection with the Chinese

government, despite a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, has been used in recent years to promote China's

preferred candidates and positions across elections in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. Galaxy works by

mining social media to build profiles, quote, customized to a person's values, beliefs, emotional

tendencies, and vulnerabilities, in quotes.

They then feed that information through their AI personas to engage in conversations that feel

sufficiently authentic and human enough to largely evade the protections companies put in

place to limit or identify AI activity. As Goldstein and Benson

described, the result is a highly efficient propaganda engine that's designed to be

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