With emerging technology comes new norms and responsibilities. As AI generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) have been adopted into advanced weapons systems, such as drones and other lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs), military analysts to ethicists have varied reports heeding warnings or celebrating its innovations. GPT combined with cyberwarfare can exacerbate the destructive effects of state-sponsored attacks. Conversely, this duo may also aid early threat detections but dangerously pushes humans to process risk at faster rates. More and more, it’s when rather than if, these systems overflow into outer space. What happens if the Outer Space Treaty of non-WMD is violated? How then will technological diplomacy and international cooperation evolve?

In this program, our expert panel will analyze how AI, cyber, and space defenses present strategic advantages as well as inherent vulnerabilities. How do national security threats become addressed within these distinct fields, and how do they intersect? And what are the ethical trade-offs in trying to maintain a competitive advantage over China, Russia, and North Korea, for example? Despite who holds the technology, is there an existential danger to the advanced science?

Mr. Michael J. Jackson
Director for Business Growth, Information Warfare and Cyber, Peraton
Former Information Operations and Special Activities, US European Command J39

Mr. Andrew Metrick
Executive Director of the Defense Technology Task Force and Fellow at the Defense Program,
Center for a New American Security

Ms. Audrey M. Schaffer
Senior Associate of Aerospace Security Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Vice President of Strategy and Policy, Slingshot Aerospace

Moderated by:

Ms. Kat Duffy
Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Welcoming remarks by:

Ambassador (ret.) Susan M. Elliott
President & CEO, NCAFP

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