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.
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A Speed-for-Security Bargain for AI Data Centers
FERC can accelerate interconnection and harden the grid
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A Speed-for-Security Bargain for AI Data Centers
FERC can accelerate interconnection and harden the grid
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Benchmarking for Breakthroughs
How to incentivize AI for national priorities through a strategic challenge and evaluations program
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Scaling Materials Discovery with Self-Driving Labs
How to close the gap between AI-guided material design and real-world validation
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A Million-Peptide Database to Defeat Antibiotic Resistance
How to build a large peptides database to train the AlphaFold for new antibiotics
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Faster AI Diffusion Through Hardware-Based Verification
How to use privacy-preserving verification in the AI hardware stack to build trust and limit misuse
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Operation Patchlight
How to leverage advanced AI to give defenders an asymmetric advantage in cybersecurity
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A Sprint Toward Security Level 5
How to protect American AI from nation-state level threats
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Preventing AI Sleeper Agents
How to ensure American AI models are robust and reliable via a DOD-led red- and blue-teaming effort
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The Infinity Project
How to use AI and mathematics to prove and improve science and security
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Biotech’s Lost Archive
How to fuel AI by unlocking the FDA’s knowledge of biotech failures
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Scaling Pathogen Detection with Metagenomics
How to generate the data necessary to reliably detect new pathogen outbreaks with AI
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The Great Refactor
How to secure critical open-source code against memory safety exploits by automating code hardening at scale
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Mapping the Brain for Alignment
How to map the mammalian brain’s connectome to solve fundamental problems in neuroscience, psychology, and AI robustness
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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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