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9 Reflections on the Democratization of Emerging Technologies at Scale
Pages 61-65

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From page 61...
... Yet, she argued, the slow, non-state trivial mechanisms for sowing confusion and impeding responses continue to surprise us. For example, she noted that mace spray was used to render people helpless during the 9/11 terrorist event, even as the use of box cutters was widely reported.
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From page 62...
... students from a diversity of disciplines to explore national security issues for an academic year. She presented the results from one of her students, who explored frugal science examples and their impact on the CBRNE threats using matrices to rank threats and capabilities in the near and far term.
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From page 63...
... In conclusion, she said, "Emerging technologies can potentially improve the capabilities of terrorists or proliferating states." However, she explained, we do not want to imperil our own economies by limiting science. Basic research in the United States is its strongest economic asset and is the envy of the world, stated Kosal.
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From page 64...
... Kosal pointed to work by Professor Kathleen Vogel, University of Maryland, who has explored this issue and has shown that even with YouTube, complex science is still difficult to do. Mallory Stewart, a planning committee member, noted that democracy and the open sharing of information and knowledge is fundamental to this issue and that autocratic regimes that control information may have an easier time addressing this issue.
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From page 65...
... Robert Dynes, planning committee member, recalled that during the Cold War, we as a nation pulled together to develop new and better nuclear weapons. The community was unified in its concerns and brought together intelligence, policy, and the entire national security apparatus, and there was mutual respect for everybody's role.
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