International Governance Challenges of Emerging Technologies

Session Submission Type: In-Person Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Emerging technologies are rapidly changing parameters that influence the behavior of international actors. Cyber, nanotech, artificial intelligence, bioengineering and other new technologies present significant governance challenges. Some of these technologies allow aggressive actions without revealing their authors or sometimes without even revealing that an action was taken at all. Some facilitate surveillance, change the capital-labor ratio of inputs into conflict processes and the nature of interstate signaling. These technologies influence the balance of power, the nature of state-society relations and the character of international political order. They also present new dangers through accident and misuse. The papers on this panel address these new challenges from a variety of perspectives.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security 

Individual Presentations

• Trust, Confidence, and the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies - Michael Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania

• Diffusion of Military Cybercapacity: The Theory of Alliance Complementarity - Nadiya Kostyuk

• Strategic Dynamics of Technology Races With Safety-Performance Tradeoffs - Eoghan Stafford, Centre for the Governance of AI; Robert F. Trager, UCLA; Allan Dafoe, University of Oxford

• Identifying Wolves Among Sheep: How Dual Use Technology Shapes Cooperation - Tristan A. Volpe, Naval Postgraduate School; Jane Eugenia Vaynman, Temple University

Chair

• Kenneth A. Schultz Stanford University

Discussants

• Erik Gartzke UCSD

• Jacquelyn Schneider Stanford University