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Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative
Led by Professors Erica Lonergan and Tamar Mitts, IGP’s Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative advances research, policy engagement, and programming at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities, digital platforms, and other emerging technologies.
The initiative examines how these technologies affect conflict, intelligence, statecraft, national security, and competition between states, bringing together areas often studied separately but increasingly intertwined in practice while connecting academic research to the challenges facing policymakers and practitioners.
Our Work
Strategy and Defense
We study how emerging technologies affect military strategy, organization, and conflict. Our research examines how cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, and space technologies are changing force design and military operations, as well as their implications for deterrence, coercion, crisis signaling, escalation, and warfighting.
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Intelligence, Covert Action, and Diplomacy
We study how emerging technologies affect intelligence, covert action, diplomacy, and influence operations. Our research examines how artificial intelligence creates new opportunities and challenges for intelligence and international cooperation, how states exercise influence through covert and proxy relationships, and how digital platforms and generative AI are changing information operations during conflict.
Online Activism and Mobilization
We study how digital platforms shape political mobilization, from violent extremism to protest and nonviolent resistance. Our research examines how online messages reach and influence audiences, the conditions under which exposure can contribute to radicalization and mobilization, and how platform interventions alter these dynamics.
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Regulating Emerging Technologies
We study how governments and technology platforms can respond to the security risks created by emerging technologies. Our research examines the effectiveness and unintended consequences of online content moderation, as well as emerging approaches to AI governance, with particular attention to public trust, security, and the broader political and social effects of technological change.
Featured News
Event Highlight
Workshop participants explored the potential causes and pathways of land and space-based scenarios that might trigger a wider crisis in space and how to avoid conflict escalation in this domain.
Announcement
Five inaugural grants were awarded to support innovative research on topics ranging from the geopolitics of space to the risks of generative AI and financial fraud.
IGP in the News
Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, a new book by IGP Emerging Technologies, Intelligence, and Security Initiative Cofounder Tamar Mitts, draws on a wealth of original data on more than a hundred militant and hate organizations around the world to show how differing moderation standards across platforms create safe havens that allow these actors to organize, launch campaigns, and mobilize supporters.
Featured Publications
Report | October 2026
Authors: Tamar Mitts and Eden Kaduri
Proceedings | August 2026
Authors: Avril Haines
Proceedings | July 2025
Authors: Erica Lonergan
