Jordan’s hard-won lessons for an age of existential risk
“Believe it or not, we are very optimistic about the future,” said Muhannad Shehadeh, Jordan’s deputy prime minister and minister of state for economic affairs.
These may seem blithe words coming from a country bordered by Israel, Syria and Iraq, with Iran a missile launch away. In fact, Jordan is a model of resilience. As the UK and other developed countries face threats from hybrid wars – unconventional attacks, such as disinformation and cyberattacks – and frontier technology, there are lessons to be learned.
In an Age of Deep Tech, The City Summit Bets on Human Connections
Insider Brief
The sixth annual City Quantum & AI Summit will bring leaders from technology, defense, finance, government and research to London’s Mansion House on Oct. 7.
The program will examine quantum and AI applications and risks across cybersecurity, finance, life sciences, space and national security.
The summit will emphasize plain-language discussions, cross-sector networking and governance for technologies developing faster than existing institutions and regulations
The technologies changing defense, medicine and finance are advancing faster than the institutions expected to manage them. Getting the right people in the same room is a critical step toward optimizing the good that these technologies can do, while minimizing potential adverse effects.
Defence Panel Discusses How to Bring Quantum & AI to Bear in a Hostile World
At a time when technology defines national power, senior defense leaders and technologists say quantum and artificial intelligence could prove decisive in maintaining strategic advantage across the NATO alliance.
Quantum Matters: NATO’S Quantum Leap: Designing A Quantum Strategy
The day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine the infamous 2019 words of President Macron – NATO is ‘brain dead’ – were crushed under its tracks. President Putin failed to conquer Ukraine. He succeeded in reinvigorating NATO, both geopolitically and technologically.
Evidence of the latter was clear over a couple of brainstorming days to define NATO’s Quantum Strategy. Your columnist joined entrepreneurs, academics, military suppliers and NATO personnel at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and at NATO headquarters in Brussels to give their input to the strategy document, due to be published this autumn.
Cybersecurity – the spies and the crooks
Collaboration key to minimising threat
What career advice do you give a young person leaving Cambridge with a double first in Classics and entering a graduate job market dynamited by Covid-19?
Heading into an industry with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of well over 13% has got to be an enticing option. Future projections are even more optimistic on the back of the coronavirus revolution in leisure and working practices. In fact, the cybersecurity market is already worth around $120bn, similar to the GDP of Morocco, while the cost of cybercrime is estimated at up to $2tr.
Russia is the only existential threat
Despite the heightened threat from North Korea, the Alliance mustn’t lose sight of the fact that Russia is the only existential threat to Europe and the US, declares the Commanding General in charge of US troops in Europe.
The US and Europe – in sickness and in health
The venue: an estate close to New York. Our mission: to develop initiatives to help save the transatlantic relationship between the US and Europe. The participants: 40 movers and shakers from the countries involved.