The Crisis of Containment – Time for a new approach?

Abstract

In the wake of technological innovations such as AI but also as a consequence of increasing proliferation and speed of creation of new threats such as biological weapons, state actors, state agents, public and private organizations and individuals are now more than equipped to escape established ‘containment’ strategies and defeat ‘early warning’. This situation is brought about by a process of technological innovation now completely out of our control. This is not the result of an oversight or an accident, but a function of geopolitical struggles that have fuelled the race for ever more extreme tech capabilities.