This chapter explores applications from each of the ten technology fields described in the report as they may relate to five important policy themes: economic growth, national security, environmental and energy sustainability, health and medicine, and civil society.
Takeaways
- These ten technologies have applications across a wide variety of policy areas, including economic growth, national security, environmental and energy sustainability, health and medicine, and civil society.
- For example, generative AI, a form of AI that creates new text, images, and other content, is expected to raise global GDP by $7 trillion and lift productivity growth by 1.5 percent over a ten-year period, if adopted widely.
- As another example, the emergence of low-cost, high-quality information from space-based assets (almost entirely commercial) is a driver of open-source (unclassified) intelligence, which has the potential to upend traditional intelligence processes built on classified information collection and analysis.
SETR 2026: Technology Applications by Policy Area by Hoover Institution