You Think It’s Bad Combatting a Pandemic with Leaders Who Don’t Understand Science?  Just Wait.

In many ways, one of the unexpected side-effects of the COVID pandemic has been a rapid acceleration of the application of new technologies and the adaptation to technology driven new realities.  From the ubiquity of Zoom to tele-medicine, from a focus on biotech to living our lives and conducting our work remotely, we’ve been given a taste of the world to come.  On the heels of these changes are coming transformational technologies associated with artificial intelligence, robotics and more.  What demands might those make of our leaders in the future–from polices forces to the highest level policymakers?  Peter W. Singer and August Cole describe that world in a riveting new novel that is based entirely on what’s really going on in emerging technologies, “Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.”  Peter Singer joins Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Kori Schake of the American Enterprise Institute for a discussion about the book and about how it ties into both this moment in our history and our immediate future.  Don’t miss it.