演講主題：Post-Truth, Deceptive AI, and the Politics of East Asia
講者：石若劍教授（Florian Alexander SCHNEIDER）
主持人：黃長玲教授（Chang-Ling HUANG）
時間：12:30-14:00
日期：2026年5月15日
地點：台灣大學社科院108室
臺大金九教授講座
每年社會科學院與亞洲比較研究中心邀請國際知名學者擔任「臺大金九教授」，並教授短期課程，「臺大金九教授講座」讓臺大師生能夠與海外的傑出學者進行學術交流。今年我們有幸邀請到於萊頓大學任教的石若劍教授（Florian Alexander Schneider），探討人工智慧與東亞政治。
本次講題：Post-Truth, Deceptive AI, and the Politics of East Asia
在中國，一些年輕男性深信自己罹患了愛滋病，儘管所有醫學檢驗都顯示他們並未受感染──他們在網路上找到一群有相同「症狀」與信念的人。在日本，當颱風侵襲關西機場時，有關臺灣旅客受困當地的惡意謠言最終竟導致一名外交官走上絕路。而在全球各地，新聞讀者對北韓政權的殘酷感到震驚——例如曾有不實報導稱金正恩將其叔父餵狗處死，這則假消息一度登上媒體頭條。
我們所處的社會深受謠言與陰謀論所形塑。儘管人們曾寄望資訊與通訊科技（ICT）的進步能打造一種「眼見為憑」的文化，使公民得以在可取得、可驗證的事實基礎上參與政治。然而，數位網絡卻成為各種信念與個人真理的角力場域；而生成式人工智慧的創新則似乎又更進一步放大了這些趨勢，創造出新的、卻往往帶有誤導性的「人機互動」形式。
Florian Schneider教授根據其對錯誤資訊（misinformation）、蓄意假訊息（disinformation）以及數位政治的研究，提出一個問題：在數位亞洲中，圍繞資訊與意義建構所產生的衝突，究竟能如何幫助我們理解高度網絡化社會中的政治運作？他以東亞、特別是華語世界為例指出，未經證實的資訊已成為幾乎無所不在的政治實踐之一，而企業化社群媒體與人工智慧則可能進一步放大這些實踐，導致其與現實之間的脫鉤及分裂。
東亞的數位發展過程是研究這些現象的重要場域：該地區長期存在高度兩極化的網路辯論，以及圍繞未經證實數位資訊的各種競逐。本演講將剖析「爭議性資訊」的構成、其在社會—技術系統中的歷史演變，及其「病理」面向——亦即此類資訊如何既是權力結構的產物，同時又在地方與區域網絡中再生產權力。最後，演講將以臺灣經驗作結，強調保持冷靜、審慎，以及重視人際互動與同理心的重要性。
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講者介紹
Florian Schneider教授是荷蘭萊登大學亞洲中心的主任與現代中國講座教授，專精於數位政治，其研究興趣廣泛，涵蓋中國、台灣與香港的治理與公共行政。他長期關注中國的政治傳播策略與數位民族主義，並著有《China’s Digital Nationalism》（牛津大學出版社，2018）等專書。Schneider教授同時擔任《Asiascape: Digital Asia》期刊的執行主編，並曾因《Staging China: the Politics of Mass Spectacle》（萊登大學出版社，2019）榮獲2021年ICAS圖書獎榮譽獎，顯示其在學術界的卓越貢獻。他於英國雪菲爾大學取得博士學位，並曾於2017年榮獲萊登大學教學獎，其關於媒體與政治的教科書，著重研究方法，橫跨不同媒介，廣受好評。Schneider教授教學與研究成果豐碩，並有豐富的實務連結經驗，故予以推薦。
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Speech: Post-Truth, Deceptive AI, and the Politics of East Asia
Speaker: Professor Florian Alexander SCHNEIDER（Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands）
Host: Professor Chang-Ling HUANG（Director of the GARC and Professor of the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University）
Time: 12:30-14:00
Date: 15 May, 2026
Venue: Room 108, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University
About Kim-Koo NTU Professor Public Talk
Each year, the College of Social Sciences and the Global Asia Research Center invite a globally renowned scholar to serve as the NTU-Kim Koo Professor and teach a mini-course. This annual NTU-Kim Koo Professorship Lecture Series enables students and faculty members to exchange scholarly ideas with distinguished scholars beyond Taiwan. This year, we are more than honored to have Professor Florian Alexander SCHNEIDER from Leiden University to talk about Post-Truth, Deceptive AI, and the Politics of East Asia.
Speech introduction
In China, a number of young men become convinced they have caught HIV/AIDS, despite all medical evidence to the contrary – online, they find likeminded people who share their peculiar affliction. In Japan, when a typhoon hits Kansai airport, malicious rumours about the Taiwanese travellers stranded there drive a diplomat to suicide. And around the world, news readers marvel at the brutality of the North Korean regime, as false claims make the headlines that Kim Jung Un fed his uncle to the dogs. We live in societies shaped by rumours and conspiracy theories, and despite hopes that advances in ICT would create ‘see-for-yourself’ cultures in which citizens can ground their politics in easily accessible, verifiable facts, digital networks have instead become sites of struggles over beliefs and personal truths. Innovations in generative artificial intelligence seem to further amplify these trends, enabling new but often deceptive human-machine interactions. Drawing from his work on mis- and disinformation, and on digital politics more broadly, Florian Schneider asks what conflicts over information and meaning-making in digital Asia can tell us about politics in advanced networked societies. Using examples from East Asia, and especially the Chinese-speaking world, he argues that unverified information is part of near-ubiquitous political practices, and that corporate social media and AI threaten to amplify those practices in ways that lead to a decoupling of realities. Digital processes in East Asia are a crucial site for researching such practices, as the region features a long-standing engagement with polarized online debates and struggles over unverified digital information. This talk explores the anatomy of contested information, its genealogy across complex socio-technical systems, and its pathologies, that is: the way such information is a product of, and in turn produces, power in local and regional networks. The talk concludes with lessons from Taiwan, most notably the need for a calm, deliberate approach that emphasises personal interactions and empathy.
About Florian Alexander Schneider
Florian Schneider is Chair Professor of Modern China at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is managing editor of Asiascape: Digital Asia, academic director of the Leiden Asia Centre, and the author of several books, including: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia – A Playful Approach (Amsterdam University Press, 2025), Staging China: the Politics of Mass Spectacle (Leiden University Press, 2019, recipient of the ICAS Book Prize 2021 Accolades), and China’s Digital Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2018). His research interests include questions of governance, political communication, and digital media in China and East Asia, as well as international relations in the region.
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