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Welcome to the Politics of Emerging Technologies online research community!

We are a growing online research community! We define emerging technologies broadly to include any technology that involves radical novelty, relatively fast growth, prominent impact, and uncertainty and ambiguity. Some examples of research topics include (but are not limited to) digital surveillance in public and private spheres; cybersecurity and international relations; the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence; automation and the future of work; the governance and regulation of social media platforms; military and civilian uses of emerging technologies; privacy law and policy; biosecurity and the prevention of future pandemics; digital media and the spread of misinformation. We welcome theoretical and empirical works from a variety of political science/public policy subfields and methodological approaches.

2022 Politics of Emerging Technologies Mini-Conference (September 1, 2022)

The 2022 Politics of Emerging Technologies Mini-Conference will take place virtually on September 1, 2022. We welcome any interested researchers to attend! Each panel is around 90 minutes and there will be Q&A within each panel.

Mini-Conference schedule

Panel	Time (Eastern)	Presenter	Title
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES	9am-10:10am	Karen Nershi (Stanford University)	How Strong Are Anti-Money Laundering Laws in Practice? Evidence from Cryptocurrency Transactions
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES	9am-10:10am	Sarah Bauer Danzman (Indiana University Bloomington)	Protecting or Stifling? The Effect of Investment Screening on Technology Firms
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES	9am-10:10am	Raymond Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Cheap Thrills: Audience Costs in the Age of Social Media
GOVERNING ALGORITHMS	10:20am-11:50am	Swati Srivastava (Purdue University)	The Pragmatist Algorithm and the Challenge of Responsible AI
GOVERNING ALGORITHMS	10:20am-11:50am	Robert Trager (University of California, Los Angeles)	Better Together: Industrial Policy and a 3rd Party AI Safety Organization
GOVERNING ALGORITHMS	10:20am-11:50am	Baobao Zhang (Syracuse University)	An Integrative Theory of Trust in AI Systems
GOVERNING ALGORITHMS	10:20am-11:50am	Nicholas Emery (University of California, Los Angeles)	Information Hazards in Races for Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Break	11:50am-12:30pm	Break	Break
MODELS OF CYBERSECURITY IN A CONTESTED WORLD	12:30pm-2pm	Rachel Hulvey (University of Pennsylvania)	Authoritarian World Orders: How China’s Persuasive Use of Ideology Shapes Order in Cyberspace
MODELS OF CYBERSECURITY IN A CONTESTED WORLD	12:30pm-2pm	Katharin Tai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	From Network Security to National Security: The Genesis of Chinese Cybersecurity
MODELS OF CYBERSECURITY IN A CONTESTED WORLD	12:30pm-2pm	Reyhan Topal (State University of New York at Albany)	Counterterrorism or Techno-Authoritarianism? Toward A Model of China’s Repression of Uyghurs
MODELS OF CYBERSECURITY IN A CONTESTED WORLD	12:30pm-2pm	Nadiya Kostyuk (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Diffusion of State Military Cybercapacity: Learning from Allies
ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION	2:10pm-3:40pm	Chloe Ahn (University of Pennsylvania)	Let Man Have Dominion: The Influence of Perceived Status Threat from Automation on Redistribution and Technology Attitudes
ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION	2:10pm-3:40pm	Diana Hicks (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Preparing for the Arrival of Autonomous Vehicles
ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION	2:10pm-3:40pm	Nicole Wu (University of Toronto)	The Politics of Automation and Special Interest Groups
ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION	2:10pm-3:40pm	Erik Gartzke (University of California, San Diego)	Robots and Democracy: How Military Automation threatens the Liberal World
TECHNOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY, AND CONTROVERSY	3:50pm-5:20pm	Cleo O'Brien-Udry (Yale University)	Winning the Future: International Competition and Public Support for Controversial Technology
TECHNOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY, AND CONTROVERSY	3:50pm-5:20pm	Julie George (Cornell University; Stanford University)	Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation
TECHNOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY, AND CONTROVERSY	3:50pm-5:20pm	Justin Canfil (Harvard University)	Red Lines in the Gray Zone: Technological Ambiguity and Foreign Policy Restraint
TECHNOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY, AND CONTROVERSY	3:50pm-5:20pm	Stephen Herzog (ETH Zurich; Harvard University)	Beyond the Dome: Cross-System Exposure and Public Perceptions of Missile Defense

Conference organizers:

• Justin Canfil (Harvard University)
• Jeff Ding (George Washington University)
• Julie George (Cornell University; Stanford University)
• Nicole Wu (University of Toronto)
• Baobao Zhang (Syracuse University; Cornell University)

Please contact Baobao Zhang at baobaozhangreseearch@gmail.com if you have questions.