Emerging Technologies: Implications for International Security & New Zealand
Twitter: @ ReubenSteff I just returned from a week of research in Washington DC . The topic of my focus was the implications of emerging technologies , such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, quantum computing and digitization technologies on international security (broadly defined), how we can begin to conceptualise and understand this emerging technological era, and what it means for small states like New Zealand. While my research will be sifted through in more detail to inform a broader program of research myself and my colleague, Dr Joe Burton, have underway at the University of Waikato, below I outline a number of points I think worth sharing now. I hope that readers forgive the scattered approach of this article, I am really just beginning to scratch the surface - subsequent blog posts, publications and other research outposts will delve into various issues noted below (and many not noted here) in more detail. As a framing device for this blog post, it shou