THIS IS A THREE-PART SERIES
Subrata Ghoshroy: January 7th: The Politics of Defense Spending. Here is the VIDEO and Go here for the SLIDES from the program.
Yarden Katz: January 14: AI: A Nebulous, Imperial Technology. Here is the VIDEO of the program. Go here to read Dr. Katz’s white paper, Manufacturing an Artificial Intelligence Revolution.
Subrata Ghoshroy: January 21: Defense R&D, Science, Profits, and Boondoggles. Here is the VIDEO of the program.
The US federal government spends billions of dollars each year on highly questionable warfare and unncessary anti-missle systems that don’t work. In addition, there is a plan to spend an additional $1 trillion on upgrading and developing the US nuclear arsenal. Join us for a three part series as we explore the politics of defense spending, the hype and reality of artificial intelligence and the science, profits and waste of US defense R&D.
Subrata Ghoshroy is a former Congressional Science Fellow and member of the Professional Staff of the House Armed Services Committee. In addition to his position as a Research Affiliate in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology and Society, he is currently a Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Yarden Katz is a Departmental Fellow in Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD in Course 9 from MIT in 2014.
For more information: Subrata Ghoshroy (ghoshroy@mit.edu).
