Join Hoover Fellow, Jacquelyn Schneider for a panel discussion at the Hoover Institution in Washington, DC on Tuesday, October 7, from 1:15 - 2:30 PM ET.
The panel discussion will be in person, commencing with a conversation with Jimmy Goodrich, Senior Fellow at UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Ryan Hass, Director – John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution, Zack Cooper, Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, Glenn Tiffert, Distinguished Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, and moderated by Jacquelyn Schneider, Director, Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative at Hoover Institution.
The panel will feature a discussion on how future crises between the United States and China will be shaped by the role of artificial intelligence, from military decision-making to information warfare. This panel will explore how AI could either stabilize or dangerously escalate a conflict between the two nuclear powers. Experts will discuss the technical and political challenges of managing AI in a crisis, and how to prevent a "flash war" from an algorithmic miscalculation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jimmy Goodrich is a leading expert on technology, geopolitics, and national security with a focus on China and East Asia. He is a senior advisor for technology analysis at the RAND Corporation and a senior fellow at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), where he works on research regarding China, technology, and national competitiveness.
Jimmy was previously the vice president for global policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he led the industry’s supply-chain, international trade, export control, global market research, and China efforts. His work at SIA included research on Chinese industrial policy and chip industry economics, efforts to successfully secure $52 billion in funding for the CHIPS & Science Act, and navigating complex multi-national export control and other national security issues. Jimmy was also the director for China policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in Washington, D.C.
Ryan Hass is director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies. He was part of the inaugural class of David M. Rubenstein fellows at Brookings, and is a nonresident affiliated fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia.
From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. In that role, he advised President Obama and senior White House officials on all aspects of U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy toward this region among U.S. government departments and agencies. He joined President Obama’s state visit delegations in Beijing and Washington respectively in 2014 and 2015, and the president’s delegation to Hangzhou, China, for the G-20 in 2016, and to Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meetings in 2016.
Zack Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Princeton University and serves as chair of the board of the Open Technology Fund. He is currently writing a book for Yale University Press that explains how militaries change during power shifts.
Before joining AEI, Dr. Cooper was the senior fellow for Asian security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He previously worked as codirector of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He also served as assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism at the National Security Council and as a special assistant to the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense.
Glenn Tiffert is a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-chairs Hoover’s program on the US, China, and the World, and also leads Stanford University’s ’s participation in the National Science Foundation’s SECURE program, a $67 million effort authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to enhance the security and integrity of the US research enterprise.
Tiffert is a specialist on the histories of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party. He also collaborates closely with government and civil society partners around the world to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions. He works extensively on the security and integrity of ecosystems of knowledge, particularly academic, corporate, and government research; science and technology policy; and malign foreign interference.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Jacquelyn Schneider is the Hargrove Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, and an affiliate with Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, autonomous technologies, wargames, and Northeast Asia. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Naval War College as well as a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Dr. Schneider is an active member of the defense policy community with previous positions at the Center for a New American Security and the RAND Corporation. Before beginning her academic career, she spent six years as an Air Force officer in South Korea and Japan and is currently a reservist assigned to US Space Systems Command. She has a BA from Columbia University, MA from Arizona State University, and PhD from George Washington University.
