Katrina Manson
Katrina Manson is an award–winning Bloomberg reporter who covers cyber, emerging tech and national security. Her investigations exposed details of the US military’s AI use and US–China rivalry. She was previously the Financial Times US foreign policy and defence correspondent.
Symposium Event
30 October 2026
Command Shift Kill: AI and the Future of War
Katrina Manson has spent years reporting the story of how the US military brought artificial intelligence into the business of finding and hitting targets. At Symposium she talks about how automated targeting has moved from experiment to routine in Ukraine, Gaza and wider counter-terrorism campaigns - and at how little of it is disclosed.
