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What Are We Governing When We Govern AI?
Everyone agrees AI must be governed. Far fewer have said what governance actually means beyond rules, norms and standards.
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Innovation and Supply Chains: How Critical Minerals Shape U.S. Military Power Today and in the Future
U.S. military modernization depends on materials that rarely appear in strategy debates but quietly determine what can be built, fielded, and sustained...
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Scoring Intelligence: Benchmarks, Evals, and the Buzzwords That Run Artificial Intelligence
What an AI score can tell us—and what a deployment decision still requires
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The internet’s lessons for AI call for scrutiny, not certainty
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Coded Consequences: Why AI Governance Matters, How It Fails, and Why Your Future Depends on It.
Accountability matters most where technical choices become human consequences
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The End of the Nonproliferation Era & The Emerging Age of Strategic Entropy
The post-Cold War nonproliferation order is unraveling, replaced by an era of strategic entropy—a condition where deterrence dynamics are no longer predictable, alliances are no longer immutable, and nuclear restraint is no longer assured.
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The AI You Don’t See: Hidden Ways AI Influences Your Everyday Decisions
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Weaponized Wildfire: The National Security Risks of Arson-Driven Disasters
Malicious actors, including terrorist organizations, may exploit fire as a low-cost, high-impact weapon designed to destabilize regions, overwhelm emergency resources, and disrupt economies.
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The Cognitive Siege
AI makes organized deception easier to produce. Its strategic effects depend on whether it reaches audiences, changes beliefs, or influences behavior—and policy must account for that distinction.
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Lithium, Leverage, and Leadership : Countering China’s Economic Influence in Latin America
South America is having its mineral deposits developed rapidly… It may well be that in the future the continent will be called upon to furnish in quantity other mineral products required by the industrial nations of the globe - Benjamin LeRoy Miller (1927)
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