Unit 5: HL extension · Global political challenges
Topic 5.8: Technology Questions
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Explain why technology is difficult to govern at the global level.
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Explain why mass surveillance is controversial in global politics.
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Analyse why the question 'who controls technology?' runs through the whole technology challenge.
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Explain why the attribution problem makes cyber conflict difficult to deter and respond to.
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Explain how technology has become a source of power in global politics.
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Discuss the view that technology does more to advance freedom than to enable control.
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Discuss the view that Big Tech companies, not governments, now make the rules for the digital world.
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Discuss the view that Big Tech companies now hold more power than many states.
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Discuss the view that cyber conflict is a genuinely new kind of warfare.
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Discuss the view that technology is a greater threat to rights than a benefit to them.
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Recommend how governments could respond to the growing power of Big Tech companies over the digital world.
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Using a case of your choice, recommend how governments and the international community together could respond to a specific technology challenge.
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To what extent can cyber conflict be governed by international rules? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent does technology empower people rather than those who control it? (synthesise the whole technology challenge)
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To what extent can the harms of new technologies like AI be effectively governed? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how the international community could reduce the dangers of cyber conflict.
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Recommend how technologies like AI could be more effectively governed at the global level.
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Recommend how a government could use technology for security while protecting citizens' privacy and freedom.
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To what extent should security be allowed to override individual privacy? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent does technology empower ordinary people rather than those who control it? (synthesise across the challenge)
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