We live in an era where rapid technological change is changing the global security balance in real time. No one knows this better than Sarah Krebs, director of the Brooks School Technology Policy Institute (BTPI) and John L. Weatherill, professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences.
During his time off, Kreps answered calls from the White House asking how to think about elections and democratic participation in the age of AI, wrote his own book on technology policy, and used artificial intelligence to develop new theories. I have maintained a balance between researching the regulatory schemes that govern my work. A roadmap for U.S. policymakers grappling with the promise and potential dangers of generative AI.
“It became clear that technology and strategy were moving faster than the policy wheels were turning, and that worried me,” Krebs said of the impetus for founding the Brook School Technology Policy Institute. “We cannot safely unlock the potential of AI and other emerging technologies without developing well-researched and responsible policies.”
With funding from the Jain Family Institute, Kreps and BTPI fellow Adi Rao, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University and an associate at the Rand Corporation, developed a high-level framework to begin their review. I am in the final stages of presenting a research paper. Regulation of AI technology. Rao and Kreps are also partnering with Microsoft Research on AI policy. In the meantime, Ms. Krebs fielded several media requests each week from the news cycle that fuels her field.
In response to these significant technological changes, the Institute has established itself as a leading authority at the crossroads between national security and technology policy. With research centers in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, supercomputing, and drones, Brooks TPI serves as Cornell's home for interdisciplinary collaboration. Its mission is to unite experts across STEM and social sciences to collaborate with policymakers and industry leaders. Addressing new challenges to national security.
It's that ambition that attracted James Patton Rogers, a senior lecturer at the Brooks School, to become the institute's first executive director in fall 2023. Rogers, a military history and technology expert specializing in drone warfare, has also had a busy year. He published his book Precision: A History of American Warfare in December and currently serves as an advisor to NATO and the United Nations Security Council on drone warfare. His role includes investigating high-tech weapons systems and preventing the decline and decline of next-generation technologies. He was delivered into the hands of violent non-state groups.
Mr. Rogers uses his work at BTPI to foster collaboration among scientists, defense experts, policymakers, and industry leaders to solve pressing security challenges posed by emerging and disruptive technologies. We believe that this is an effort to create a new framework for the future.
“We are seeking to understand which emerging technologies pose the most disruptive threats to national security today, and we are bringing together technology experts and policymakers to develop new technologies to meet these challenges. We're trying to find strategic and policy solutions,” Rogers said.
As an example, Rogers pointed to the work of Dr. John McCandless, a BTPI fellow and Ignite postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. He works on the commercialization of semiconductor research. In his collaboration with BTPI, Mr. McCandless focuses on the defense implications of new semiconductor technologies and informs both policy practitioners, academics, and industry leaders about the technical nature of his research through dedicated lectures and policy briefs. There is.
“Students' reactions to this research were one of the most exciting aspects, as they realized how relevant the research was to both their professional future and the future of global policy. Because it's obvious that they do,” Kreps said. “The demand for student research assistants exceeds our current capacity to meet them, but James and I feel that's a good problem to have right now.”
