EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND NATIONAL SECURITY - REVIEW OF 2023

Emerging technologies bring not just novel societal benefits, but also unprecedented risks. A balance between embracing the future potential of technology and preparing for the challenges it poses to society, while avoiding the extremes of technological utopianism, technological dystopianism, technological determinism or even technolibertarianism is necessary. The profusion of various emerging technologies poses challenges to governments and think tanks in assessing opportunities and threats and determining policy imperatives, a challenge that the newly formed Future Issues and Technology (FIT) cluster at RSIS has boldly taken on.