Emergent Technologies
Providing insight and analysis on the emerging risks, opportunities, and developments on the frontiers of tech from a political and geopolitical risk perspective.
Emergent Technologies as a term is used to denote either new or a continued development of an existing technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum computing, autonomous systems, and synthetic biology are some of the trends which have a significant impact on society. However, geopolitics interacting with these technologies can introduce significant risks to individuals, businesses, governments, policymakers and NGOs.
The Emergent Technologies programme works at the intersection of these technologies and political risk with the aim to provide research and analysis to navigate political risks and drive growth. The recognition of these key technology trends, with the backdrop of London Politica’s broader expertise in geopolitical risk allows for the provision of comprehensive and integrated actionable insights.
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Emergent Technologies Reports
Comprehensive reports tackling the impact on, and of, trends, and pressures regarding Tech and Cyber developments, their politics, governance, and geopolitics.
Following the recent heated battle for a TikTok ban in U.S Congress earlier this month, the words ‘TikTok’, ‘China’ and ‘Spyware’ have taken the internet by storm. In this new report, titled The Social Face of Spyware, we examine the ways in which the revolutionary social interface of TikTok may contain deeper interwoven systems of data collection, user tracking and surveillance tools that make it a substantial political threat. Through our series of articles, analysts from both London Politica and Warwick Think Tank delved into the ways in which TikTok has influenced propaganda and misinformation, whether it can be used as a means of surveillance, how it compares to long- standing privacy regulations and what implications this has for the wider international landscape.
Emergent Technologies Analysis
Analysis of events, trends, and risks impacting and impacted by Tech and Cyber from a political, policy, economic, humanitarian, social, geopolitical, or security perspective.
With the growing popularity of AI-powered commercial chatbots such as GPT-3, Claude and Sage, artificial intelligence has taken the public discourse by storm. Questions of public utility, productivity, and task automation on the one hand and concerns over loss of jobs or dystopian visions of a robotized future on the other have divided public opinion across the world. It is thus no surprise that such controversial, yet undoubtedly extremely promising technology has grabbed the attention of state services, notably intelligence agencies.
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