Associate Dean Daryl Lim interviewed about AI threats

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean Daryl Lim was featured in a Straight Arrow News report discussing how foreign adversaries are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT to conduct influence and hacking operations. The article, titled “Russia, China and North Korea are using ChatGPT to influence you — here’s how” (October 7, 2025), features expert commentary from Lim alongside analysis of a new OpenAI report on foreign AI misuse.

In the interview, Lim explained that AI-enabled attacks are becoming “more capable and harder to detect,” allowing adversaries to personalize and automate misinformation and cyber campaigns at unprecedented speed. He outlined how AI systems can be exploited for disinformation, impersonation, and voice cloning while also highlighting U.S. government efforts to mitigate such risks through initiatives like the White House’s AI Action Plan and the National Security Agency’s AI Security Center. Lim’s insights reflect the integration of his teaching and scholarship at the intersection of law, technology, and national security.

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Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.

In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.