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"As a country, we have to have the most dominant technological stack in the world, and that's critically important for our national and economic security."
Watch the full event, linked below, where @WHOSTP47 Director @mkratsios47 unpacks the Trump administration's AI Action Plan
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Congratulations to our colleagues at @CSISEST on their recent promotions and new additions to the team!
Join us in celebrating recent promotions:
- @CSIS_Tech’s Kuhu Badgi, Program Manager and Research Associate
- @CSIS_Tech’s Taylar Rajic, Fellow
- @CSIS_Trade’s Richard Gray, Program Manager and Research Associate
- @CSISCBE’s Isabella McCallum, Senior Program Manager
- @CSISEST’s Andrea Leonard Palazzi, Fellow
- @CSISEnergy’s Ray Cai, Fellow
- @CSISIndiaChair’s Shashwat Kumar, Senior Fellow
We’re also thrilled to welcome our newest team members:
- @csis_ai’s @chris_gorin, Associate Fellow
- @CSIS_Tech’s A’ndre Gonawela, Fellow
- @CSISEST’s Sofie Leathers, Program Coordinator and Research Assistant
We’re excited to recognize their accomplishments and look forward to their continued contributions to EST’s work.
🎙️New on the AI Policy Podcast: America's First AI Election? Plus, Sella Nevo on Securing Model Weights
This week, host Aalok Mehta sits down with RAND's Sella Nevo to discuss SL5 and the threats facing frontier AI labs. Listen to their conversation:
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🎙️New AI Policy Podcast: AI cyber incidents pile up + Anthropic pitches draft AI safety bill
Aalok & Nicole discuss ARTEX-driven hacks, bugs in PHP, and a misaligned Qwen3.8. Plus, why is Anthropic getting backlash for its draft safety bill? Find out⬇️
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🚨The Wadhwani AI Center at CSIS is hiring a Deputy Director & Labor Impacts Senior Fellow.
What does AI mean for jobs and the economy? Help us find out.
Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/cen…
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
"The Russia-Ukraine battlefield has become a “live test site” for China’s military learning. The evidence shows a systematic process through which the PLA and the Chinese defense industry identify battlefield innovations and translate selected lessons into training and procurement," write @csis_ai experts.
Read: bit.ly/4iaD66n
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
China is running the most systematic effort by any outside power to convert the Ukraine war’s lessons into military advantage, absorbing the errors of both sides. Analysts describe the conflict as a living textbook and call 2024 "year one of the world drone war", write @csis_ai experts.
Read: bit.ly/4iaD66n
🎙️New on the AI Policy Podcast: Unpacking the Trump Admin's first policy actions in the "SI" era
Aalok Mehta and Nicole Errera discuss the new Super Intelligence Force and the White House accord signed by tech CEOs. Plus, OpenAI does more math!
Listen:
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CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
The Russia-Ukraine battlefield has become a "live-test site" for China's military learning. The analysis phase is considerably faster than the institutional absorption that follows, but the process gives China a way to learn from a war without fighting one, write @csis_ai experts.
Read: bit.ly/4iaD66n
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
"Despite the Chinese system’s advantages, there are limits to Chinese adaptation, centering on the frontline feedback loop. A military built on centralized approval, however, cannot create decentralized improvisation by command," write @csis_ai experts.
Read: bit.ly/4jMAC0a
China is running the most systematic effort by any outside power to convert the Ukraine war's lessons into military advantage, Lilly Min-Chen Lee and Kateryna Bondar write in a new commentary.
Read their analysis:
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🎙️This week on the AI Policy Podcast: What's driving the data center backlash? Writer @jasminewsun sits down with host Aalok Mehta to discuss the grassroots opposition movement.
Tune in:
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CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
"China is running the most systematic effort by any outside power to convert the Ukraine war’s lessons into military advantage, absorbing the errors of both sides. Chinese analysts are explicit about the value of Russia’s war against Ukraine," write @csis_ai's Kate Bondar and Lilly Min-Chen Lee.
Read: bit.ly/4iaD66n
🚨In case you missed it🚨Last week's AI Policy Podcast touched on the first known case of agents hacking a govt system, contrasting AI governance visions at the UNGA, new state-level regulation + outcomes of the US-China summit.
Listen:
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Upcoming on the AI Policy Podcast: Aalok Mehta sits down with writer @jasminewsun for a conversation about the data center backlash.
📺Tune in this Thursday:
csis.org/events/unpacking-da…
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
"Declining to engage China on AI safety at a time when autonomous AI incidents are becoming a subject of global concern would cede global leadership of this issue to China," write @csis_ai experts.
More: csis.org/analysis/state-ai-g…
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
The evolution of the Geran drone over four years of conflict in Ukraine reflects a broader shift in modern weapons development, where advantage increasingly depends on maintaining the organizational and industrial capacity to continuously iterate a system after it has entered combat.
More from @csis_ai: youtube.com/watch?v=of3U5pix…
🚨New video analysis out now🚨Join Kateryna Bondar and Nicole Errera on a deep dive into the Geran drone family, from Iran's Shahed-136 to today's Geran-5, followed by a conversation with Samuel Bendett on Russia's larger defense ecosystem.
📺Tune in:
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LIVE at 8 AM: What can the Geran's evolution over four years of conflict tell us about the future of weapons development?
Join @CSIS experts Kateryna Bondar, Nicole Errera, and Samuel Bendett for a deep dive into the Russian attack drone.
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CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
“The United States needs to make an offer that speaks to what most of the world actually wants from AI governance: access, capability, and a say in the rules,” write @csis_ai’s Christopher Collins and Aalok Mehta.
Learn more: csis.org/analysis/state-ai-g…
CSIS Wadhwani AI Center retweeted
AI governance could become one of the summit’s most consequential issues during today's meeting between President Trump and President Xi. But the talks come as the U.S. and China are already in a geopolitical contest over who will be writing the global rules for AI.
Learn more from @csis_ai experts: csis.org/analysis/state-ai-g…