The Virtual Research Workshops provide cybersecurity researchers and practitioners with a platform to present and get feedback on research projects and papers.
We hold monthly hour-long workshop meetings where participants can present research to the community. To ensure high-quality feedback, for each presentation an expert discussant will be identified and assigned to each paper who will provide detailed comments, before opening up the discussion to all participants.
Our Fall/Winter session (October 2024 – January 2025) will tackle how emerging technologies put pressure on the international order and key pillars of democracy, such as human rights and the rule of law.
Recent years have seen various technological developments within the private sector -including artificial intelligence, surveillance technologies and offensive cyber capabilities- that offer potential advantages to modern democracies. Yet these developments also have consequences for and pose challenges to fundamental democratic values. This gives rise to a tension between the incentives states may have to exploit emerging technologies and the constraints imposed by ideas of democracy.
What line, if any, should be drawn between how democratic versus authoritarian states leverage emerging technologies? Is it desirable, or even possible, to build democratic values into emerging technologies by design? During the next four sessions, we engage with these questions and more, exploring themes such as cyber expertise and diplomacy, justice by design, trust and interdependence, and feminism in cyberspace. Be sure to tune in!
