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Artificial Intelligence
"It is this dual nature of artificial intelligence technology that is bringing enormous security risks to not only individuals and entities across nations"

- Forbes (2019)

As more advancements are made towards Artificial Intelligence (or A.I) it garners more and more attention on its capability as an dual-use technology. Artificial Intelligence can be applied through many different fields as well as can be easily integrated through current technology's cyberspaces. With the use Artificial Intelligence technology has become capable of running multiple algorithms that could solve difficult problems, from detecting anomalies in samples during MRI scans, to providing surveillance within an entire country's residents. Within China's mass surveillance, the government uses Artificial Intelligence in order to distinguish citizens with less than satisfactory records among crowds. As potential uses for Artificial Intelligence grow in number, nations need to start regulating Artificial Intelligence as an dual-use technology. With every new invention or application made with A.I, comes with its own set of positive and negative effects.

HoloLens 2
Early 2019, Microsoft announced the HoloLens 2, smart glasses that will allow consumers to experience augmented reality within the real world. However, it was revealed Microsoft made a 479 million dollar deal with the U.S government. This contract would have Microsoft create and supply the U.S Army a separate version of the HoloLens smart glasses called the Integrated Visual Augmented System (IVAS). The IVAS would be used to train soldiers, as well as field medics with battlefield experience within a virtual environment. This version of the HoloLens allowed the soldiers to have a virtual map of their current environment, friendly units' locations, and much more. This contract was unbeknownst to a team of Microsoft Workers who worked on the HoloLens, writing a letter and demanding that Microsoft should cancel the IVAS contract due to discontent on how their technology is being utilized. Satya Nadella, defended this military stance by claiming it was within their civic duty as an "corporate citizen" to provide this technology to the government.