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Details: Oscar Jonsson will be joined by Jean-Marc Rickli from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Anya Fink from CNA to discuss his ongoing RSI sponsored research "Russia’s Revolution in Intelligence Affairs."
Abstract:
Among the Russian political leadership, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen to revolutionize both the character of armed conflict, but also the essence of power in the 21st Century. The main focus of the impact of AI has been in the economic sphere and how autonomy will impact warfare. However, less attention has been given to how AI will impact the central preoccupations for the Russian leadership: staying in power domestically and advancing Russia’s influence abroad which are both central tasks of Russian intelligence and security services. Therefore, this research and discussion will center on how AI can impact Russia's active measures in information-, cyber- and political warfare.
Biographies
Oscar JonssonFounder & CEO, Phronesis AnalysisResearcher, Swedish Defence University
Dr. Oscar Jonsson is founder and CEO for Phronesis Analysis and researcher at Swedish Defence University. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He has earlier been Director of the Center for the Governance of Change and Stockholm Free World Forum, as well as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and a subject-matter expert at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters where he worked with hybrid warfare, Russian strategy and long-term planning.Oscar has advised governments, armed forces’ leadership and financial institutions on strategic affairs and geopolitical risk, and featured in international print and broadcast media. Oscar is the author of The Russian Understanding of War (Georgetown University Press).
Anya FinkResearch Scientist, Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
Anya Fink is a research scientist with CNA's Russia Studies Program. Her research focuses on Russian strategy, military thought, and approaches to innovation; as well as nuclear weapons issues.Prior to joining CNA, Fink spent a year as a fellow focused on national security and nuclear policy in the U.S. Senate and a year as a postdoctoral Stanton Nuclear Security fellow at the RAND Corporation, where her research focused on Russian military writings about escalation management. She also previously worked as a program officer in nuclear material security at the Stanley Center for Peace and Security and as a research associate focused on WMD and missile proliferation issues in Russia and Eurasia at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.Fink holds a PhD in international security and economic policy from the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park and an MPIA from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. She has native fluency in Russian.
Dr Jean-Marc Rickli is the Head of Global and Emerging Risks at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium emerging security challenges working group and a senior advisor for the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Initiative at the Future Society. He is also a member of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and represents the GCSP in the United Nations in the framework of the Governmental Group of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). He is a member of the advisory board of Tech4Trust, the first Swiss startup acceleration program in the field of digital trust and cybersecurity. In 2020, he was nominated as one of the 100 most influential French-speaking Swiss by the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. Prior to these appointments, Dr Rickli was an assistant professor at the Department of Defence Studies of King’s College London. Dr Rickli received his PhD and MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, UK, where he was also a Berrow scholar at Lincoln College. His latest book published by Georgetown University Press is entitled Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-first Century. He has lived and worked in Europe, USA, Middle East and China.
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