Recent Public Events

AI is transforming every aspect of warfare, including: sensors and the ability to identify targets on the battlefield; communications and the capability to network together dispersed forces; and command and control and the ability to direct complex distant operations. Nowhere are the effects of AI greater, however, than in the domain of autonomous combat systems. How are autonomous “drones” revolutionizing warfare? What types of operations are becoming more (and less) possible? What types of countries are poised to benefit from the age of UAS-warfare? What type of policies are required to shape, manage, and regulate these changes? What are the pressing ethical issues that this new form of warfare raises? Panelists: Sasha Baker '05, Head of National Security Policy at OpenAI, former Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. James Patton Rogers, Lecturer in Security and Technology within the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Moderated by Erica Barks Ruggles, Obenshain Family Distinguished Visitor and Diplomat in Residence, former US Ambassador to Rwanda. Part of Dartmouth's "What Must Remain Human?" Conference marking AI at 70. Dartmouth College, October 29, 2026

In 2003, the United States came together across the aisle to address the AIDS crisis in Africa. This bipartisan success story became PEPFAR, a program now credited with saving more than 26 million lives. Panelists: Rebecca Bunnell, MD - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for PEPFAR and Health Programs, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy Nils Daulaire, MD - Former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; former U.S. representative on the WHO executive board John Donnelly - Author of Lifeline: The Story of PEPFAR; Former Boston Globe reporter; Former advisor to World Bank President Doris Macharia, MD - President of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Ambassador (ret) Erica Barks Ruggles - Obenshain Family Distinguished Visitor and Diplomat in Residence, former US Ambassador to Rwanda The Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecture. Made possible by a gift from Mary and Peter R. Dallman ‘51. Dartmouth College, November 4, 2026

Ali Wyne, Senior Research and Advocacy Advisor, U.S.-China with International Crisis Group in conversation with Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government. For three decades, American policy rested on a wager: that drawing China into the institutions of the rules-based international order would make it a stakeholder in that order. Ali Wyne and Jennifer Lind take up the question of whether that wager paid off, what it produced, and what it means for how the United States approaches China now. Dartmouth College, October 26, 2026