Andrew Grotto on Technology, Governance, and National Security
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As a fellow at both the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution, Andrew Grotto centers his work on the intersection between emerging technology, governance, and national security. According to Grotto, the decisions that governments make about technology have national security applications in the US and affect global foreign policy; this is just part of the reason why it's important to evaluate the benefits and risks of emerging technologies.
Grotto offers insight on a number of topics, including how large versus small companies may be affected by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), voting and election security, three different types of companies that will play a role in the cyber security and privacy debate, and an emerging phenomenon referred to as "deep fake" videos.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies |
| 0:08.0 | Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these |
| 0:14.8 | technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for |
| 0:19.6 | Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | My guest today is Andrew Grotto. |
| 0:32.0 | He's from the William J Perry International Security |
| 0:35.1 | Institute. He's a fellow at the Freeman's Bugley Institute and is also a |
| 0:39.6 | research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Both are located at Stanford University. He's also a |
| 0:44.6 | fellow at the Stanford Cyber Initiative. So Andy, how you doing today? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm doing great, Rich. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, so tell me about your work, you know, you're a fellow at multiple institutes, what's your main focus of the work that you look at? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm interested in the intersection between information technology, governance, and national security. |
| 1:07.0 | So where decisions that governments make, businesses make about technology has either national |
| 1:14.7 | green applications for the United States or bigger sort of |
| 1:18.7 | global foreign policy questions around trade and how to approach dealing with some of the benefits and risks |
| 1:28.6 | of these technologies. So what are some examples that governments have implemented recently, you know, whatever government it is that either worked out really well or worked out terribly? |
| 1:38.0 | So there there are, um, so on the one hand you could argue that, you know, government's leaving technology alone, right, not stepping in with legislative or policy interventions, that that restraint is actually a good thing, right? |
| 1:57.0 | It's allowed innovation to unfold. |
| 2:00.0 | Given space for investors and inventors to be creative and explore the boundaries of |
| 2:09.3 | engineering and some cases even physics. You know, I don't say that that intervention isn't, you know, |
| 2:17.0 | warranted in certain cases, so you know, right now in the United States and Europe Europe, we're seeing a pretty lively debate over |
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