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Audrey Kurth Cronin is Trustees Professor of International Security and Technology and Director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University.
This is a virtual only event. A Zoom link will be sent to all that register by 11:00 am on Thursday, April 13th
Event Description
In this presentation based on her award-winning book, Audrey Kurth Cronin will discuss how individuals and small groups have shared and used accessible lethal technology in the past, and how they are likely to do so in the future. The diffusion of modern technologies—digital media, robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, synthetic biology, autonomous systems, machine learning, and various types of artificial intelligence—makes them accessible to a much broader range of people. Open technological innovation is changing the evolution of conflict, in the war in Ukraine and elsewhere, and we must adapt.
Speaker Bio
Audrey Kurth Cronin is Trustees Professor of International Security and Technology and Director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Cronin’s best-known book is How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns (Princeton, 2009), which the New Yorker called a “landmark study.” Her latest book, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (Oxford, 2020), analyzes emerging technologies and devises a new framework for analyzing 21st century military innovation. It was short-listed for the Lionel Gelber prize and won the 2020 Neave prize.
Cronin was a Marshall Scholar from Princeton, earned a DPhil from Oxford, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. She has been director of the core course on War and Statecraft at the National War College, Director of Studies for the Changing Character of War program at Oxford University, and Specialist in Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service. She has also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy and frequently advises at senior levels. She was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Terrorism and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.