Understanding Anti-Technology Extremism

On July 27, the Program on Extremism at George Washington University will host a webinar panel focused on anti-technology extremism, its evolution, how AI is reshaping the threat, and the policy implications. With a city councilman’s home being shot at after backing data centers, and the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman having a molotov cocktail thrown at his San Francisco home, this threat is actualizing across the United States, and even has international parallels. However, anti-technology sentiments which have led to violence are not new, but the advent of AI and its massive changes in society are leading to an evolution of this threat.

Featured panelists

• Mauro Lubrano: is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Relations at the University of Bath. His research focuses on anti-technology politics, emerging threats, and innovation processes in terrorist organisations. He is the author of Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism.
• Yannick Veilleux-Lepage: is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada. His research examines terrorist innovation, the role of emerging technologies in violent extremism, and the evolution of far-right movements. He is the author of How Terror Evolves (2020) and the forthcoming Uniformed Threats, which explores right-wing extremism within NATO armed forces. Dr. Veilleux-Lepage leads the Canadian component of AMALTHEA, a Horizon Europe project on the gendered dimensions of radicalisation.

This discussion is moderated by Jordyn Abrams, Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism.  

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