Audrey kurth cronin biography channel

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Topics:  National and International Security, Technology and Security, Innovation, Terrorism

Industries: Security, Military, International Affairs, Government Relations

Audrey Kurth Cronin is the Trustees Professor of Security and Technology Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology.

She is the award-winning author of Power to the People (Oxford University Press, 2020) and How Terrorism Ends (Princeton University Press 2009). Her research explores how governments and private actors use accessible technologies such as robotics, cyber weapons, additive manufacturing (“3-D printing”), synthetic biology, autonomous systems, and various forms of artificial intelligence.

She analyzes why some lethal technologies spread (and others do not), which ones to focus on, and how to prevent individuals and private groups from adapting them for malevolent ends. She also focuses on military technological innovation, especially the