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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. Jeffrey Edmonds, Samuel Bendett, Anya Fink, et al., “ Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in Russia ” CNA – Center for Naval Analysis.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. ” Team 2: Networks. Beyond the classroom, the course plunges students into getting “out of the building” to iterate quickly while translating learnings to the real world.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

In addition to the non-nation states (Al-Qaeda and ISIS) we’ve fought for the last two decades, our military now faces “Great Power” competition from China and Russia. Today the U.S. The strategy called for a pivot of our defense from fighting terrorists to preparing for confrontations with the “two plus three.”.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

Steve Blank

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. How these investment strategies and time horizons compare and contrast with the same considerations made by China and Russia.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. Previously, he worked on arms control and the maintenance of strategic stability between the United States, Russia, and China.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

Steve Blank

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

The trend now seems to be bending toward incentivizing network participation , where those who see the opportunity will want to not just invest in a new network, but put their time and resources into participating by running nodes themselves. 1/ Social Network Interference. That so far may not be good enough.