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Dario Guarascio: “The Military-Digital Complex: Digital Technologies and the New World (dis)Order”

Dario Guarascio: “The Military-Digital Complex: Digital Technologies and the New World (dis)Order” This lecture focuses on the mutual dependence linking large digital platforms, i.e., ‘Big Tech’, and the military apparatus. Three main elements are brought at center stage: an ‘originary linkage’ binding the development of digital platforms with governments’ military R&D efforts; the critical nature of infrastructures and technologies controlled by platforms; and their role as their government’s ‘eyes and ears’(both at home and abroad). Focusing on the US and China, this lecture will document the growing relevance of Big Tech as military contractors, as well as key actors in war scenarios. In so doing, the main facets of a new military-digital complex will be highlighted, showing how the intertwining of Big Tech’s surveillance-based strategies aimed at monopolizing markets and those directed at the political-military hegemony of nation states (i.e., the US, China and their vassals) constitute a threat to humanity whose integrated character is essential to grasp. Speaker: Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Moderator: Susan Winter, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, USA The Digital Humanism Lecture Series is organized by the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien and TU Wien's Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101123121 (EURIDICE) https://euridice.eu/ and from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101212890 (EUDHIT) and https://eudhit.eu/.