Jon R. Lindsay

Jon Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His research explores the role of emerging technology in global security. He is the author of Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell, 2025) and of  Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell, 2020), the co-author with Erik Gartzke of Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics (Oxford, 2024), and editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford, 2019) and of China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford, 2015). His latest book project is "The Odyssey of AI: The Wrath of Technology and the Return of Humanity." He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in computer science and B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University. He has also served in the U.S. Navy with operational assignments in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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