Age of AI

In this episode Medlir and Chris speak with the two of the authors of a Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) Georgetown report on AI cooperation among members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, more commonly known as the Quad.LinksQuad AI | Assessing AI-related Collaboration between the United States, Australia, India, and JapanThe Future of the Quad’s Technology Cooperation Hangs in the BalanceSend us a text

Medlir and Chris discuss the distinction between analogue and digital approaches to IR and the impact of digital innovations in peace-building. They also ask whether digital peace is any more secure and less fragile than the analog one. Meanwhile Young Diogenes engages with Derek Parfit's 'hinge of history' argument and, unsurprisingly, finds extant interpretations lacking.Links:The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace FormationPeace-making: new technologies are no panaceaCan history be used to predict the future? Some experts say it canSend us a text

Medlir and Chris discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the future of global trade, data colonialism and prospects for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework with guest Dan Ciuriak, while Young Diogenes talks up AI’s potential to transform manufacturing ("Yes, yes, I understand 'Manufacturing' won't seem all that exciting to some of you. Ha. " --YD) Links:Unfree Flow with No Trust | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/unfree-flow-with-no-trust-the-implications-of-geoeconomics-and-geopolitics-for-data-and-digital-trade/Into the Post-Pandemic | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/into-the-post-pandemic-on-the-new-world-orders-and-their-would-be-architects/Send us a text

Chris and Medlir explore with Young Diogenes the question of whether AI will be our artist of the future, while Medlir talks to Ilan Manor about public digital diplomacy and the use of digital tools in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.Links:AI-art isn’t artCommunicating with Purpose and Value: Chapter 3 Digital DiplomacyHow Digital Diplomacy is Shaping the #Ukraine CrisisDigital Diplomacy in #Ukraine- A Case of Strategic TransparencyWhy digital sanctions are the latest geopolitical battlegroundSend us a text

Chris and Medlir review AI-themed television shows with Young Diogenes (e.g. Westworld), followed by a discussion with Frederick Bruneault, professor of philosophy at University of Quebec Montreal, asking the question: How do we define AI ethics and how do we avoid pitfalls in the debate surrounding it. Finally, we ask Dr. Bruneault, what is missing from the current discussion on AI ethics?Links:Groupe de recherche sur l’information et la surveillance au quotidienAI ethics debate: How can information ethics provide a framework which allows us to avoid usual conceptual pitfalls?» (coll. A.S. Laflamme), AI & Society, 36, 2021, 757-766AI Ethics Training in Higher Education: Competency Framework» (coll. A.S. Laflamme & A. Mondoux), SocArXiv, March 2022The role of corporations in addressing AI’s ethical dilemmas, Darrell M. West Thursday, September 13, 2018 Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Human Rights: Risks and OpportunitiesPamela PassmanSend us a text

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Medlir and Chris start off our third season with AI4Peace's Branka Panic, about how AI can contribute to peace and conflict prevention. Plus see our bonus episode this week on YD's AI movie picks, which also led to a lively second discussion.Links:AI4Peace | https://www.aiforpeace.org/ Report on data for peacebuilding and prevention | https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/can_emerging_technologies_lead_a_revival_of_conflict_early_warningearly_action_lessons_from_the_field-2022_0.pdf The Berkeley Protocol | https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/12/berkeley-protocol-gives-guidance-using-public-digital-info-fight-human-rights The Costs of Connection | https://colonizedbydata.com/ Conflict Forecast | https://conflictforecast.org/ Hala Systems | https://halasystems.com/ Send us a text

How do we teach emerging tech in IR? How will technological changes impact the discipline in particular and higher education more broadly? How can we best design curriculums to address emerging challenges? These are some of the questions Medlir and Chris will explore in the second part of our two part series on higher education with guests Andre Barrinha and Raluca Csernatori.Send us a text

What does the education look like in an age of everincreasing demands for technical proficiency and availability? How can we make better uses of emerging tech in our classrooms and study spaces? Tech IQ versus Emotional IQ. What is the balance? Professor Nancy Gleason and Dr. Alexandra Mihai joined Chris and Medlir to discuss these questions and more in the first of a two-episode special on Higher Education and Teaching in the age of AI.  (YD is on hiatus this week.)Links:https://educationalist.substack.comhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-13-0194-0.pdfSend us a text

Medlir and Chris talk to Bojan Perkov of the SHARE Foundation about digital surveillance in Serbia. Meanwhile, YD discusses why mass surveillance and facial recognition technologies are far from benign. Noteshttps://medium.com/s/story/facial-recognition-is-the-perfect-tool-for-oppression-bc2a08f0fe66 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/facebook-privacy.htmlhttps://www.sharefoundation.info/en/Send us a text