The New American Foreign Policy of Technology
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The open nature of the internet has allowed malicious actors to abuse technology. Information operations, offensive cyber, and IP theft are just some examples of this misuse. The Biden administration has pursued an industrial policy that hopes to counter the weaponization of globalized systems. This approach includes technology subsidies, export controls, and rethinking supply chains. But this approach could undermine efforts to advance global rules and values.
To discuss how the United States can push back while bolstering democracy and human rights, Eugenia Lostri, Lawfare’s Fellow in Technology Policy and Law, sat down with former Ambassador Karen Kornbluh, Managing Director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative and Senior Fellow with the German Marshall Fund. Ambassador Kornbluh is the lead author on the new GMF report “The New American Foreign Policy of Technology.” They discussed why there’s a need to rethink American foreign policy, how to center democratic values, and the crucial role of a multistakeholder approach.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | If we say Frenchoring and we say openness, |
| 0:37.0 | but we don't put as much muscle behind ensuring that that happens |
| 0:43.0 | as we do, making sure that our companies get our subsidies, |
| 0:49.0 | then we'll have lost a big opportunity. |
| 0:51.0 | And we may have undermined the very openness that is our strength. |
| 0:56.0 | I am Okhni Anjtri, LawFair's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law. |
| 1:02.0 | And this is the LawFair podcast March 23, 2023. |
| 1:07.0 | The open nature of the Internet has allowed malicious actors to abuse technology, |
| 1:12.0 | information operations, offensive cyber, and IP theft, |
| 1:16.0 | or just some examples of this misuse. |
| 1:19.0 | The Biden administration has pursued an industrial policy |
| 1:23.0 | that hopes to counter that weaponization of globalized systems. |
| 1:27.0 | This approach includes technology subsidies, expert controls, |
| 1:31.0 | and rethinking supply chains. |
| 1:34.0 | However, this approach could undermine efforts to advance global rules and values. |
| 1:40.0 | To discuss how the United States can push back |
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