Disruptive Technologies

Flowers outside a mosque in New Zealand to commemorate the victims of an attack on two mosques that killed 50 people. Credit: Mike Dickison via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. (Edited)

Should tech executives do hard time for violent content posted to their platforms?

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

Statute of Libery and flag, with Russian text

Putin’s renewal of Russian power: Real, or a “ghost empire”?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

A screenshot from a video on Vaak's website. Credit: Vaak.

Concerned about facial recognition AI? What about behavior recognition software?

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

Silicon Valley defense contracts will really hit ‘em where it hurts

By Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, What We’re Reading

Illustration by Matt Field.

Gene-editing on autopilot: What could go wrong?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

3D rendering of a quantum processor. Credit: Shutterstock

Approaching Y2Q and barely a peep (or tweet) from the government

By Lindsay Rand | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

A CDC staff microbiologist examines reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus contained at a Biosafety Level 3-enhanced lab. Photo credit: Photo Credit: James Gathany/CDC

Human error in high-biocontainment labs: a likely pandemic threat

By Lynn Klotz | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Supplementary material for “Human error in high-biocontainment labs: a likely pandemic threat”

By Lynn Klotz | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

computer hacker and code

Missing from the 2019 Missile Defense Review: Cybersecurity

By Lauren Borja | Analysis, Cyber Security

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by FFCU CC BY-SA 2.0.

Former Israeli spies get involved in US elections as information warriors

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

A British soldier participating in a NATO exercise. LCpl Craig Williams/(UK Ministry of Defense) via Wikimedia Commons. OGL

NATO researchers used social media to learn details of a military exercise and manipulate troops. It wasn’t very hard to do.

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

Trump orders some sort of vague action in the AI arms race

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