Three forces are opening up the so-called “Second Machine Age”: the accelerating power of processors, dramatic improvements in software capabilities as well as exponential growth in the size of digital data. As the Atlantic Alliance moves into its 7th decade, however, this technological transformation is likely to raise new challenges, not only for our lives and societies, but also for our security.
It is still too early to understand both the effects and the direction of these challenges. For this reason, the Seminar aims to bring together world-leading experts to tackle different aspects related to this potentially major transformation. The general theme of the entire day concerns the rise of autonomous systems – one of the primary implications of the second machine age – and their effects on war and military affairs as well as on NATO.