Reports
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Cyber Crossroads in the Indo-PacificThe Indo-Pacific faces a cyber crossroads. Down one path lies deeper military, intelligence, and economic ties between Washington and its key allies and partners in this strat...
By Vivek Chilukuri, Lisa Curtis, Janet Egan, Morgan Peirce, Elizabeth Whatcott & Nathaniel Schochet
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Technology & National Security
Countering AI Chip Smuggling Has Become a National Security PriorityBased on the available evidence, artificial intelligence (AI) chip smuggling has likely been occurring at a scale that significantly undermines U.S. attempts to restrict the P...
By Erich Grunewald & Tim Fist
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Technology & National Security
Atomic AdvantageExecutive Summary One of the most consequential national security contests now unfolds on battlefields invisible to the naked eye—across the faint radiofrequency signals of th...
By Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Lessons in LearningExecutive Summary Although claims of a revolution in military affairs may be overhyped, the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy to change warfare is growin...
By Josh Wallin
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Technology & National Security
Countering the Digital Silk Road: BrazilProject Overview This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s ambitious initiative to shape critical digital infrastructure around the world to...
By Ruby Scanlon & Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Promethean RivalryExecutive Summary Just as nuclear weapons revolutionized 20th-century geopolitics, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform 21st-century power dynamics—with world l...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Countering the Digital Silk Road: IndonesiaThis year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s ambitious initiative to shape critical digital infrastructure around the world to advance its geop...
By Vivek Chilukuri & Ruby Scanlon
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Safe and EffectiveThe promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy to change the character of war inches closer to reality...
By Josh Wallin
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Averting AI ArmageddonIn recent years, the previous bipolar nuclear order led by the United States and Russia has given way to a more volatile tripolar one, as China has quantitatively and qualitat...
By Jacob Stokes, Colin H. Kahl, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Nicholas Lokker
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Technology & National Security
BiopowerFor policymakers, the question is not whether the biorevolution has transformative power, but which nation will responsibly harness that power...
By Vivek Chilukuri & Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Technology to Secure the AI Chip Supply Chain: A Working PaperAdvanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, built and deployed with specialized chips, show vast potential to drive economic growth and scientific progress....
By Tim Fist, Tao Burga & Vivek Chilukuri
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Technology & National Security
AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security RisksNew AI capabilities may reshape the risk landscape for biothreats in several ways. AI is enabling new capabilities that might, in theory, allow advanced actors to optimize bio...
By Bill Drexel & Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
Catalyzing CrisisThe arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022 initiated both great excitement and fear around the world about the potential and risks of artificial intelligence (AI). In response, s...
By Bill Drexel & Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
The Quest for QubitsThe United Nations General Assembly recently declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Quantum information science, a field once exclusive to aca...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Problems with Life Science Databases in the United StatesWhile humans will retain their ultimate mysteries, many aspects of their traits, diseases, and environment are becoming increasingly tractable. Much of this advance has come f...
By Carol Kuntz
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Public-Private Coordination of BiotechnologyAn appreciation of biotechnology’s great opportunities is, for many commentators, intimately joined with regret about a disconnect between the U.S. government and the private ...
By Richard Danzig
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Great Data Competition and Interoperability with Allies and PartnersUnderstanding and strengthening America’s biotechnology leadership requires exploring the limits of existing data relevant to the U.S. bioeconomy so that policymakers and the ...
By Michelle Holko
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Technology & National Security
Autonomy and International StabilityIn a time of growing international tension, with interstate warfare ongoing in Europe and openly threatened over Taiwan, military forces worldwide are looking increasingly to ...
By Tom Shugart
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Innovation in Agricultural BiotechnologyIn 1986, the United States established a “Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.” In the decades since, this policy helped to enable the rapid development ...
By Dr. L. Val Giddings
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Technology & National Security
Future-Proofing Frontier AI RegulationExecutive Summary Policymakers should prepare for a world of significantly more powerful AI systems over the next decade. These developments could occur without fundamental b...
By Paul Scharre