Technological Innovations and Global Security: Risks and Opportunities

Abstract

New technologies are rapidly altering the character of security issues on a global level, opening up a whole new world of new opportunities and threats at the same time. AI, info-security, biotechnology, and other autonomous systems have put strong tools for improving the security, faster and sophisticated identification of risks, and or of threats in national as well as in international contexts. These technologies have redefined intelligence collection, borders, watch, and protect, and cyber security where states/organisations have been in a position to strategize on proactive measures to security. At the same time, the growth of the technological environment accelerates the rate of growth of different risks and threats. The case of lethal autonomous weapon systems AI autonomous weapons pose certain ethical concerns such as the aspect of losing control to the software, thus having higher tendencies of initiating higher levels of conflict situations. In the same way, developments in cybersecurity responding to threats can be used to create stronger online protection, yet it has also increase the risks and possibilities of such cybercrimes such as attacks, data theft, and cyber warfare involving government intending on disrupting major establishments. Within the biotechnology domain we foresee applications of genetic engineering and synthetic biology for medical application, but these involve bio security threats such as bio terrorism and genetic data abuse. The article focused on exploring the positive effects and threat that technological advancement brings to security in the global world. This calls for enhanced and inclusive global policies, norms, and cooperation system that can well cater intertwined issues with technology ever changing and growing innovation. Through these challenges’ active management through governance, transparency and cooperation, global security stakeholders can effectively unleash technology’s advantages, while at the same time managing its corollary risks.