Presentation on AI and weaponization of neurotechnology from Jean-Marc Rickli

Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli is the head of global risk and resilience at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a senior advisor for the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Initiative at the Future Society. He is an expert for the United Nations in the framework of the Governmental Group of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and also the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium on Emerging Security Challenges Working Group. 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.

DR. Rickli will discuss recent developments in the weaponization of artificial intelligence, and those in neurotechnologies. He will also discuss their security implications.