{"id":120602,"date":"2021-03-16T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/artificial-intelligence-leads-natos-new-strategy-for-emerging-and-disruptive-tech"},"modified":"2021-03-16T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:23:12","slug":"artificial-intelligence-leads-natos-new-strategy-for-emerging-and-disruptive-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/artificial-intelligence-leads-natos-new-strategy-for-emerging-and-disruptive-tech","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence leads NATO\u2019s new strategy for emerging and disruptive tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-leads-natos-new-strategy-for-emerging-and-disruptive-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STUTTGART, Germany \u2014 NATO and its member nations have formally agreed upon how the alliance should target and coordinate investments in emerging and disruptive technology, or EDT, with plans to release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/opinion\/2019\/02\/27\/the-white-house-and-defense-department-unveiled-ai-strategies-now-what\/\" target=_blank>artificial intelligence<\/a> and data strategies by the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years the alliance has publicly declared its need to focus on so-called EDTs, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/nato_static_fl2014\/assets\/pdf\/2020\/4\/pdf\/190422-ST_Tech_Trends_Report_2020-2040.pdf\" target=_blank>identified seven science and technology areas<\/a> that are of direct interest. Now, the NATO enterprise and representatives of its 30 member states have endorsed a strategy that shows how the alliance can both foster these technologies \u2014 through stronger relationships with innovation hubs and specific funding mechanisms \u2014 and protect EDT investments from outside influence and export issues.<\/p>\n<p>NATO will eventually develop individual strategies for each of the seven science and technology areas \u2014 artificial intelligence, data and computing, autonomy, quantum-enabled technologies, biotechnology, hypersonic technology, and space. But for the near future, the priority is AI and data, said David van Weel, NATO\u2019s assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STUTTGART, Germany \u2014 NATO and its member nations have formally agreed upon how the alliance should target and coordinate investments in emerging and disruptive technology, or EDT, with plans to release artificial intelligence and data strategies by the summer of 2021. In recent years the alliance has publicly declared its need to focus on so-called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}