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Topics:聽 National and International Security, Technology and Security, Innovation, Terrorism

Industries: Security, Military, International Affairs, Government Relations

Audrey Kurth Cronin is the Trustees Professor of Security and Technology Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology. She is the award-winning author of Power to the People (Oxford University Press, 2020) and How Terrorism Ends (Princeton University Press 2009). Her research explores how governments and private actors use accessible technologies such as robotics, cyber weapons, additive manufacturing (鈥�3-D printing鈥�), synthetic biology, autonomous systems, and various forms of artificial intelligence. She analyzes why some lethal technologies spread (and others do not), which ones to focus on, and how to prevent individuals and private groups from adapting them for malevolent ends. She also focuses on military technological innovation, especially the contrast between 20th century military innovation and the far more rapid innovation and diffusion driven by commercial actors today.

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Power Shift: How 麻豆村 Is Leading America鈥檚 Energy Evolution 听鈥�聽麻豆村 News
From reimagining AI data centers to modernizing and securing the electric grid, 麻豆村 researchers are working on practical solutions to pressing challenges in how the U.S. produces, moves and secures energy. 鈥淎I-driven energy expansion is a prime opportunity to harden our infrastructure against cyber threats,鈥� said Audrey Kurth Cronin, director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology. 鈥淯pgrading energy infrastructure for AI offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to replace vulnerable legacy systems with inherently more defensible technologies.鈥�

听鈥�聽War on the Rocks
Ukraine鈥檚 rapid public-private technological innovation under fire has been the most remarkable characteristic of the war and a key reason for the country鈥檚 survival. Ukrainians were well prepared before the war to resist Russian psychological warfare and employ accessible technologies in novel ways. The Ukrainian government鈥檚 strength has been its ability to mobilize all of Ukrainian society and much of the world, then fight asymmetrically with superior public will, supported by fast-moving private technology companies and open source innovation.

Audrey Kurth Cronin To Lead Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology 听鈥�聽麻豆村
鈥淚 am excited and honored to be directing this major university initiative, building on 麻豆村鈥檚 strengths in emerging technologies, and tying them to in-depth analyses of their wise use in national and international security,鈥� Cronin said. 鈥淥ur goal is to focus on building cross-disciplinary bridges 鈥� to reduce risks, maximize benefits and make our brilliant technologies a force for good in the world.鈥�

听鈥�聽Fox News
China and the United States are taking opposite approaches to governing artificial intelligence, and the contrast has big implications for both their global competition and the safety of their citizens.

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Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin, an expert in international security at 麻豆村, made a similar point. "There is no legal mechanism for designating a US-based domestic group as 'terrorist.' There are many mechanisms for labeling foreign groups and actors but none for US domestic groups," Cronin told Newsweek.

听鈥�聽Council on Foreign Relations
Audrey Kurth Cronin, distinguished professor at American University鈥檚 School of International Service and founding director of the Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how technology, innovation, and social media are shaping Russia鈥檚 war in Ukraine and what it might mean for the future.

听鈥�聽The Washington Post
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has countless pathways for escalation. The humanitarian situation deteriorates hourly, and Russian military challenges, including low morale, are likely to make the conflict worse. Are there any possible off-ramps?

听鈥�聽The Hill
A month ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping proclaimed a 鈥渘ew era鈥� in international relations. Their joint statement declared a 鈥渘o limits鈥� Sino-Russian entente would be at the vanguard of global realignment. They never anticipated such rapid change would follow, mostly at their expense.

听鈥�聽War on the Rocks
If fear of 5G technology proves to be the motive for the Christmas-Day bombing in Nashville, Tennessee, no one should be surprised. The pandemic has accelerated awareness of digital technologies and given individuals, groups, and state proxies room to agitate. One result is a heightened link between violence and technology 鈥� both attacks against technology (e.g., anti-5G, anti-vaccination, anarcho-primitivism) and attacks exploiting technology (e.g., armed quadcopters, additive manufacturing, the 鈥業nternet of Things鈥�). Regardless of how the Nashville bombing comes out, authorities need to strengthen their ability to meet anti-technology attacks on our vulnerable critical infrastructure, especially by looking close to home.

听鈥�聽The Globe and Mail
In February, 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen killed 10 people in a mass shooting in Hanau, Germany. It was an attack that demonstrated how online platforms join up neo-Nazis, incels (鈥渋nvoluntary celibates鈥�), racists, xenophobes and conspiracy theorists into a global movement that appeals to weak-minded individuals. Mr. Rathjen left behind paranoid texts, a website, and an English-language YouTube video espousing white supremacism, calling for genocide and claiming secret mind-readers were controlling him.