Disruptive Technologies

Hey, let’s fight global pandemics by maybe starting one… Say WHAT?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Multimedia, Say What?

A screen shot taken from the Apple App Store's Grindr download page.

US government pressure on Chinese owners of Grindr: A reprise of Cold War-era homophobia?

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

A screen shot of Sniper 3D Assassin. Credit: Wiki Guide Tip via YouTube.

Shooting journalists in a video game seemed fun, but the game maker has had a change of heart

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

The Russian government-funded TV network’s hyperbolic campaign against US 5G

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

A screenshot taken from The Good Fight on CBS All Access. Credit: CBS All Access.

An episode of The Good Fight illustrates the clout of China’s censors

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by gloucester2gaza and Julian Hertzog via Wikimedia Commons. CY BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY 4.0. Stylized.

The United Nations and the future of warfare

By Ariel Conn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Sean P. Anderson via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Social media regulation and its discontents

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

person on top of crates of medical supplies

What the future may hold for the Strategic National Stockpile for Biodefense

By Dina Weilhammer, Thomas Bates | Analysis, Biosecurity, Explain This, Technology and Security

Richard Lugar with Barack Obama in 2005 at a Russian base where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed by the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. At the time, Lugar was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Obama was a member of the committee.

Farewell to American statesman Richard Lugar

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Kingsbury was one of the Sri Lankan hotels and churches targeted by suicide bombers on April 21. Credit: AKS.9955 via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.

Sri Lanka blocked Facebook after the Easter bombings, but was social media really a problem?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Dealing realistically with the artificial intelligence revolution

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The frame problem: The AI “arms race” isn’t one

By Heather M. Roff | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies