talks & convenings

Speaking

Selected talks, plus conferences and seminars I have organized.

Conferences & Seminars Organized

Generative AI and National Security — Organizer Day-long conference with speakers from DoD and CDAO; keynote by Michael Kratsios · 2024
Virtue in the Loop — Military AI Ethics — Co-Organizer (with Paul Scherz) Developing a virtue-ethics framework for autonomous systems in military contexts · 2022
American Democracy in the Internet Age — Organizer Seminar for the Templeton World Foundation and public conference with The New Atlantis · 2019
Peaceful Coexistence? Russian Grand Strategy beyond Putin — Organizer Interdisciplinary colloquium on Russian visions of world order · 2018

Selected Talks

Morality in Tech Invitation-Only Seminar, Princeton University · 2023
AI and the Problem of Military Judgment Virtue in the Loop Conference, Catholic University of America · 2022
Money Is Not a Weapons System: Inflation, Economic Distortion, and Counterinsurgency Failure Political Economy of Security Workshop, Boston University · 2020
The Owl of Minerva Flies at Dusk: The Organizational Sources of Military Optimism APSA Annual Conference, Washington, DC · 2019
Finding the Common Good in the Age of the Infinite Self Citizenship in a Networked Age Conference (Templeton World Foundation) · 2019
How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny Hertog Free Speech and the Internet Seminar, Washington, DC · 2019