Emerging Technology
How can we shape the frontier of technological development and deployment?
Recent developments in emerging technologies have revealed there might be cracks in the Great Stagnation. Between clean energy that’s too cheap to meter, autonomous drone deliveries to your doorstep, and novel cures to deadly diseases, a world of abundance could be within reach — but we need to get the policy framework for their deployment right. Technology exhibits a great degree of path dependence, and we need to ensure that these systems are compatible with liberal democracy and don’t enable authoritarianism.
Emerging Technology
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Catalyzing a Golden Age: A Blueprint for Strategic AI R&D Investment
Response to the OSTP RFI on the Development of a 2025 National AI R&D Strategic Plan
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What Does America Think the Trump Administration Should Do About AI?
Analyzing public recommendations to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) AI Action Plan
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What Lessons Should the US Learn From DeepSeek?
Testimony to the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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The H20 Problem: Inference, Supercomputers, and US Export Control Gaps
How to prevent 1.3 million AI chips from being sold to China today, and how to prepare for the future
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An Action Plan for American Leadership in AI
12 recommendations for the Office of Science and Technology Policy's AI Action Plan
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Compute in America: A Policy Playbook
How to rapidly build gigawatt-scale AI clusters in the United States
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How to Build the Future of AI in the United States
Part Two of Compute in America
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Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?
The private sector is taking a fresh look at the challenging technology
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How to Build an AI Data Center
Part One of Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home
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The Case for a NIST Foundation
Four ways a non-profit foundation could supercharge NIST’s work on emerging technologies
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Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home
A new series from the Institute for Progress
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How to Make the NSTC a Moonshot Success
The new National Semiconductor Technology Center can reshape America's semiconductor industry
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Where Can Federal AI R&D Funding Go the Furthest?
Testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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The Case for AgARDA
The new research agency will need real funding to boost agricultural innovation
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Unlocking American Agricultural Innovation
There is still lots of low-hanging fruit in crop biotechnology
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Why SpaceX Is an Underrated Strategic National Asset for the U.S.
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Reducing Recidivism through Innovation: Bringing Opportunities to Incarcerated Persons and Prison-Tech Startups
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