Speakers

	Dario Guarascio Sapienza University of Rome	Digital technologies. Civilian vs military trajectories This talk explores the evolution of the digital technological paradigm through the lens of U.S. political economy, focusing on the interplay between civilian and military trajectories. It examines how major U.S. tech corporations, such as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, have leveraged platform-based monopoly power, Big Data, and surveillance capabilities. While digital technologies initially followed a civilian-driven path, their features have increasingly aligned with military priorities. Recent U.S. industrial and defense policies have deepened the integration of digital corporations into military R&D and security programs, signaling the rise of a new digital-military-industrial complex, an emerging and concerning development in the digital age. Read the full paper here
	Petter Ericson Umeå University	A Roadmap for AI Policy Research – Shared Responsibility and Collective Benefits AI is seeing both increasing regulation, and increasing use as a policy instrument. As such, the field of AI Policy Research is rapidly gaining in importance, and a shared vision around what constitutes useful and beneficial AI policy and AI policy research is an urgent agenda. The Roadmap for AI Policy Research, which was developed at the AI Policy Research Summit in Stockholm in November of 2024 is a major attempt at such a document, laying out both underlying core values and concrete research priorities and actions that are intended to lead to a future where the impact of AI on society is one of shared benefit, sustainable development, and ecological recovery.