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*Invading the Campus: The Military Industrial Complex’s Quest for Academic
Know-How*

with Michael Klare and Indigo Olivier
Wednesday, April 5 @ 8pm

A webinar sponsored by the War Industry Resisters Network and Massachusetts
Peace Action

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*Michael Klare* will report on his research on the Pentagon’s quest to
exploit academic research on emerging technologies – artificial
intelligence, robotics, and hypersonics, among others – for military
purposes. As the U.S. gears up for possible conflict with China and Russia,
it seeks to attain mastery in these technologies, considered vital to
success in the high-tech battles of the future. But expertise in AI and
other emerging technologies is not available from the Pentagon’s
traditional contractors, with their focus on metal; for tanks, planes, and
other standard weapons; rather, it must be extracted from academic centers
of innovation, like MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. To acquire this
knowledge and employ it for military purposes, the Pentagon is establishing
outposts on these and other campuses, and; their personnel in university
labs and classrooms. This invasion threatens to distort academic research
and convert top universities into tools of the Pentagon. A vigorous debate
is therefore needed on the moral and ethical consequences of the military
use of academic know-how.

*Indigo Olivier* will report on her research on the engineering degree to
defense industry pipeline. Decades of disinvestment in public higher
education have resulted in dwindling university budgets and ballooning
student debt. Through scholarships, sponsored research, and a robust campus
presence, the defense industry has been able to funnel some of the nation’s
top scientific talent into weapons development. Olivier will discuss how
our national budget priorities have influenced academic research
and what these defense industry partnerships look like on the ground.

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*MICHAEL T. KLARE* is professor emeritus of peace and world security
studies at Hampshire College. He serves as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the
Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. and as the defense
correspondent of The Nation. Professor Klare is the author of 15 books,
including Resource Wars, The Race for What’s Left, and, most recently, All
Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change. His
articles on U.S. military policy, global resource competition, and arms
proliferation have appeared in Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, The
National Interest, Scientific American, Survival, Technology Review, and Le
Monde Diplomatique, among others.

*INDIGO OLIVIER* is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. Her writing
on politics, labor, and higher education has appeared in The Guardian, The
Nation, In These Times, Teen Vogue, and Jacobin.



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