BANCU2404. Keynote: 21st Century Internet Alert - Tech Is Just as Destructive as Transformative!

30 years of internet technology have shown that legislators, regulators, and executives have glorified the innovative impacts it can have while failing to adequately understand the increasing risks to critical infrastructure, security, and privacy. We have reached the point where even the most sophisticated financial services companies cannot defend themselves without spending unsustainable sums each year and geopolitical adversaries continuously expose the holes in even the most sophisticated cybersecurity defenses, and it is only getting more challenging as AI, deep fakes, quantum computing, synthetic biology, and autonomous warfare take center stage. There are answers.

Learning Objectives:

• Compare the imbalance between the transformative and destructive impacts of digital technologies and the ways that AI, deep fakes, quantum computing, synthetic biology, and autonomous machines put the personal safety and financial well-being of users at risk
• Identify what can be done to respond to a world where everything will be connected, and everything will be vulnerable to hackers
• Analyze how digital assets such as cryptocurrencies compound the risks to individuals’ financial security and national security
• Determine who can shape the future of technological revolution and what must be done to make cyberspace safe