BIOGRAPHY
CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Eleonore Pauwels is a Senior Fellow with the Global Center on Cooperative Security in New York City. Eleonore conducts in-depth research on the security and governance implications generated by the convergence of artificial intelligence with other dual-use technologies, including cybersecurity, genomics and genome-editing.
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Eleonore explores and analyzes our converging technological futures, unveilling emerging signals and drivers of change, such as:
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The Internet of Bodies, Genomes and Minds
Cognitive-Emotional Conflicts and The New Deception Machine
Smart but Vulnerable Cities in the era of AI-led Cybercrime
The Rise of Bio-Citizens (Democratization of Genomics Technologies)
Eleonore provides expertise to the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as to governments and private sector actors, on AI-Cyber Prevention, the changing nature of conflict, foresight and global security. In 2018 and 2019, Eleonore served as Research Fellow on Emerging Cybertechnologies for the United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research. At the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, she spent ten years within the Science and Technology Innovation Program, leading the Anticipatory Intelligence Lab. She is part of the Scientific Committee of the International Association for Responsible Research and Innovation in Genome-Editing. She is a former official of the European Commission’s Directorate on Science, Economy and Society.
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Eleonore regularly testifies before U.S. and European authorities including the U.S. Department of State, NAS, NIH, NCI, FDA, the National Intelligence Council, the European Commission and the UN. She writes for Nature, The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, Le Monde, Slate, UN News, The UN Chronicle and The World Economic Forum.