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Revision as of 10:19, 1 September 2022
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 a Q&A session within each panel.
Please register to receive the Zoom link
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScC_XS0eVfCNr-24Iy-zxQvKUkHPJkZLZCmRBPEEfRI6rpTog/viewform?usp=sf_link
Mini-Conference schedule
| Panel | Time (Eastern) | Presenter | Title | Discussant(s) | Chair |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES | 9am-10:10am | Karen Nershi (Stanford University) | How Strong Are Anti-Money Laundering Laws in Practice? Evidence from Cryptocurrency Transactions | Katharin Tai | Sarah Kreps (Cornell University) |
| Raymond Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Cheap Thrills: Audience Costs in the Age of Social Media | ||||
| Baobao Zhang (Syracuse University; Cornell University) | An Integrative Theory of Trust in AI Systems | ||||
| Break | 10:10-10:20am | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| GOVERNING ALGORITHMS | 10:20am-11:30am | Swati Srivastava (Purdue University) | The Pragmatist Algorithm and the Challenge of Responsible AI | Rachel Hulvey | Jon Lindsay (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Robert Trager (University of California, Los Angeles) | Better Together: Industrial Policy and a 3rd Party AI Safety Organization | ||||
| Nicholas Emery (University of California, Los Angeles) | Information Hazards in Races for Advanced Artificial Intelligence | ||||
| Break | 11:30am-12:30pm | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| MODELS OF CYBERSECURITY IN A CONTESTED WORLD | 12:30pm-1:40pm | Rachel Hulvey (University of Pennsylvania) | Authoritarian World Orders: How China’s Persuasive Use of Ideology Shapes Order in Cyberspace | Julie George | Max Smeets (ETH Zurich) |
| Katharin Tai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | From Network Security to National Security: The Genesis of Chinese Cybersecurity | ||||
| Reyhan Topal (State University of New York at Albany) | Counterterrorism or Techno-Authoritarianism? Toward A Model of China’s Repression of Uyghurs | ||||
| Break | 1:40pm-1:50pm | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION | 1:50pm-3:20pm | Chloe Ahn (University of Pennsylvania) | Let Man Have Dominion: The Influence of Perceived Status Threat from Automation on Redistribution and Technology Attitudes | Kaylyn Jackson Schiff (Yale University) | Erica Owens (University of Pittsburg) |
| Diana Hicks (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Preparing for the Arrival of Autonomous Vehicles | ||||
| Nicole Wu (University of Toronto) | The Politics of Automation and Special Interest Groups | Baobao Zhang | |||
| Erik Gartzke (University of California, San Diego) | Robots and Democracy: How Military Automation threatens the Liberal World | ||||
| Break | 3:20pm-3:50pm | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 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 | Jeff Ding (George Washington University) | Daniel Schiff (Purdue University) |
| Julie George (Cornell University; Stanford University) | Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation | ||||
| Justin Canfil (Harvard University) | Red Lines in the Gray Zone: Technological Ambiguity and Foreign Policy Restraint | ||||
| 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)
We hope to make the mini-conference a safe and welcoming experience for everyone. The mini-conference will observe the American Political Science Association Anti-Harassment Policy for the Annual Meeting as its code of conduct.
Please contact Baobao Zhang at baobaozhangreseearch@gmail.com if you have questions or concerns.
Email list
We have set up a low-traffic email list for announcements. Once you subscribe to the email list, you can send and receive information about job opportunities, funding opportunities, upcoming workshops, conferences, and events, and other information. Announcement emails will be moderated.
Sign up here to join the email list:
https://gaggle.email/join/politics-emerging-tech@gaggle.email
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