Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies

Rapid advances in technology are making the world more complex, interconnected, and dangerous—while undermining the long-standing tools, institutions, and assumptions we have developed to manage conflict. From the digital frontier of cyber conflict to the use of autonomous lethal military robots, the arenas, actors, and objectives of modern conflict are changing in unpredictable ways. Political upheavals at home and abroad have only intensified the sense that we are entering uncharted territory.

Navigating this new geopolitical landscape requires understanding how emerging military and security technologies can affect strategy, warfare, and geopolitics. At this New Tools for Science Policy seminar, ASU Professor Braden Allenby and The Intercept national security reporter Sharon Weinberger discussed the shifting dynamics of modern conflict.

Featured speakers included Braden Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law, Arizona State University and Sharon Weinberger, national security reporter for The Intercept.