Artificial Intelligence, Politics and Security in the Asia Pacific
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Artificial Intelligence, Politics and Security in the Asia Pacific
This workshop brought together experts from academia, government, the defence industry, and NGOs to share information and discuss how artificial intelligence has and will change international politics and security, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific. There were presentations and discussions about big data analytics, including Cambridge Analytica and its effect on democratic processes; China’s social credit system; Singapore’s perspective on AI and security; Google’s AI principles; digital footprints and microtargeting; lethal autonomous weapons and the ethics and laws of war; and international norms. It connected experts in politics and security with experts in AI, facilitating collaboration and network-building.
The workshop was hosted by Toni Erskine on behalf of the ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and HMI, as well by Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, in March 2019. It was conducted under Chatham House rule. Attendees included academics from within ANU (National Security College, College of Arts and Social Sciences, College of Engineering and Computer Science), from other Australian universities (UNSW, USyd), and from Cambridge University, Nanyang Technological University, and Berggruen Institute China Center, as well as representatives from Google Asia Pacific, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Australian government officials from DFAT, Department of Human Services, and the Australian War College.