Metascience
Latest Publication
August 11th 2026
Ambitious American Science Requires Reliable and Effective Federal Funding
IFP’s comments on OMB’s proposed rule on Federal Financial Assistance
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Emerging Technology
How to Implement an Operation Warp Speed for Rare Earths
A coordinated, whole-of-government effort to secure America’s rare earth supply chain
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High-Skilled Immigration
The “Wage Level” Mirage
How DHS’s H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US-trained talent
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Emerging Technology
Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI
How a new ARPANET-style program could solve the data accessibility problem
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Metascience
American Science Should Take a Lot More Risks
Scientific efficiency isn’t primarily about the dollars we could save; it’s about the breakthroughs we could be missing
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Emerging Technology
Preparing for Launch
An introduction to The Launch Sequence: Why shaping AI progress matters, and how to go about it
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Emerging Technology
Teaching AI How Science Actually Works
How block-grant labs can generate the real-world data AI needs to do science
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Emerging Technology
Using X-Labs to Unleash AI-Driven Scientific Breakthroughs
How to adapt our science funding mechanisms to the unique infrastructure needs of large-scale AI projects
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Emerging Technology
The Replication Engine
How to build automated replication infrastructure for better, faster science
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Emerging Technology
Benchmarking for Breakthroughs
How to incentivize AI for national priorities through a strategic challenge and evaluations program
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Emerging Technology
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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Emerging Technology
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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Emerging Technology
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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Emerging Technology
Operation Patchlight
How to leverage advanced AI to give defenders an asymmetric advantage in cybersecurity
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Emerging Technology
A Sprint Toward Security Level 5
How to protect American AI from nation-state level threats
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Emerging Technology
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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