AI and Warfare

17 Mar 2025
Public talks and lectures
Time
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Venue
Music Hall, The New Space, Gradel Quadrangles, New College, Mansfield Road, OX1 3TZ
Speaker(s)

Professor Stephen Rosen, Harvard University

Professor Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford

Knowledge of physics?
No, knowledge of physics not required
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This is our third conversation in the series on The Age of AI hosted by Professor Sondhi. This one will feature Professor Stephen Rosen on the subject of AI and Warfare. This will be followed by a Q&A session.

Stephen P. Rosen is the Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University, where he has also been a Harvard College Professor, the Master of Winthrop House, and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. He was the civilian assistant to the director, Net Assessment, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Political-Military Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, and a professor in the Strategic Department at the Naval War College. He participated in the President’s Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy, and in the Gulf War Air Power Survey sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force, and he has published widely on nuclear proliferation, ballistic missile defense, limited war, and the American national character as it affects foreign policy. His first book, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell University Press, 1994), won the 1992 Furniss Prize. His subsequent books are Societies and Military Power: India and its Armies (Cornell University Press, 1996) and War and Human Nature (Princeton University Press, 2004). Rosen received his A.B. and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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