Secondary Title
CISSM
Abstract
This paper focuses on the spread of dual-use enabling technologies not only due to a relative lack of policy attention but also due to the positive feedback loop created by adoption of these technologies, which makes them more likely to spur further innovations and consequently transform systems. Many of these enabling technologies have been driven by military and defense-related demand
Concluding remarks
These include additive manufacturing (AM), artificial intelligence (AI), and technologies that underpin advanced sensing and communication. None of these are “new” inventions per se—AM has been used since the 1980s,7 the first machine learning program was created in 1952,8 and many of the underpinnings of advanced sensing and communications technologies, such as frequencyhopping and high-frequency transmission and reception, were invented in World War II.9 Indeed, it has taken decades for some of these inventions to result in true innovation, and whether these innovations have led to transformation of military forces in turn is still unclear.10
Reference details
Resource type
Miscellaneous
Year of Publication
2020
Publication Area
Dual-use cybersecurity
How to cite this reference:
Double or Nothing? The Effects of the Diffusion of DualUse Enabling Technologies onStrategic Stability. (2020). Retrieved from https://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/ProlifInnov/Montgomery2020Double.pdf