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Feb 10, 2025

Don't Be Fooled, Advanced Chips Are Important for National Security

It is paramount that the United States retains its high-performance computing (HPC) advantage and prevents its adversaries from accessing advanced HPC systems and semiconductors. Failing to do so would create grave national security risks.
Expert Insights

Feb 10, 2025

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Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems

Artificial general intelligence's (AGI's) potential emergence presents five hard problems for U.S. national security that can provide a common language to communicate about AGI risks and opportunities and a rubric to evaluate alternative strategies.
Research

Feb 7, 2025

Surgeons' Views of Peer Comparison and Guideline-Based Feedback on Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Qualitative Investigation

Interviews of 36 surgeons in a randomized controlled trial of social norm-based feedback to reduce postsurgery opioid prescribing elucidated surgeons' reactions and responses to the feedback as well as contextual factors affecting its impact.
Research

Feb 7, 2025

Drivers of Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Common Surgical Procedures in a Large Multihospital Healthcare System

Analysis of 25,188 surgeries at a large multihospital healthcare system clarifies sources of medically warranted and unwarranted variation in postsurgery opioid prescribing practices.
Research

Feb 6, 2025

Van woorden naar daden: Een verkenning en kritische beschouwing van het concept 'stochastisch terrorisme': [An exploration and critical review of the concept of 'stochastic terrorism']

Study examining the concept of stochastic terrorism, which posits that influential figures can indirectly incite violence through hostile but veiled language, amplified on social media, increasing the likelihood of someone turning to violence.
Research Summary

Feb 6, 2025

Hate and Dehumanization in Russia's Narrative on Ukraine

This brief examines Russia’s use of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism in narratives in the context of its war against Ukraine from 2022 to early 2024 by analyzing content on the social media platforms X and Telegram.
Commentary

Feb 5, 2025

DeepSeek's Lesson: America Needs Smarter Export Controls

While U.S. algorithmic advantage has weakened for now, China remains constrained by access to advanced AI chips, which matter for AI development and deployment. The U.S. must act decisively to maintain this edge by swiftly and strategically updating export controls in response to new AI developments.
Commentary

Feb 4, 2025

What DeepSeek Really Changes About AI Competition

DeepSeek's models are freely downloadable by anyone. If Chinese companies continue to develop the leading open models, the democratic world could face a critical security challenge: These widely accessible models might harbor censorship controls or deliberately planted vulnerabilities that could affect global AI infrastructure.
Commentary

Feb 3, 2025

AI Could Pose Pandemic-Scale Biosecurity Risks: Here’s How to Make It Safer

AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity.
Research

Feb 3, 2025

Changes in Specialty Crisis Services Offered Before and After the Launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

This study of mental health treatment facilities found that the launch of 988 was associated with an increase in peer support services, and decreases in psychiatric walk-in services, mobile crisis response and suicide prevention services.
Commentary

Jan 30, 2025

How Might the United States Engage with China on AI Security Without Diffusing Technology?

Given the transnational risks posed by AI, the safety of AI systems, wherever they are developed and deployed, is of concern to the United States. Since China develops and deploys some of the world's most advanced AI systems, engagement with this U.S. competitor is especially important.
Commentary

Jan 30, 2025

The United States Needs to Stress Test Critical Infrastructure for Different AI Adoption Scenarios

While AI may provide a way to help protect critical infrastructure, there is a growing need to stress test critical infrastructure for reliability and resilience across wide scenarios of AI adoption.

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Don't Be Fooled, Advanced Chips Are Important for National Security

Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems

Surgeons' Views of Peer Comparison and Guideline-Based Feedback on Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Qualitative Investigation

Drivers of Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Common Surgical Procedures in a Large Multihospital Healthcare System

Van woorden naar daden: Een verkenning en kritische beschouwing van het concept 'stochastisch terrorisme': [An exploration and critical review of the concept of 'stochastic terrorism']

Hate and Dehumanization in Russia's Narrative on Ukraine

DeepSeek's Lesson: America Needs Smarter Export Controls

What DeepSeek Really Changes About AI Competition

AI Could Pose Pandemic-Scale Biosecurity Risks: Here’s How to Make It Safer

Changes in Specialty Crisis Services Offered Before and After the Launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

How Might the United States Engage with China on AI Security Without Diffusing Technology?

The United States Needs to Stress Test Critical Infrastructure for Different AI Adoption Scenarios

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AI and the Future of the U.S. Electric Grid

Defending U.S. Interests Against Malign Information Operations

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Don't Be Fooled, Advanced Chips Are Important for National Security

Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems

Surgeons' Views of Peer Comparison and Guideline-Based Feedback on Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Qualitative Investigation

Drivers of Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Common Surgical Procedures in a Large Multihospital Healthcare System

Van woorden naar daden: Een verkenning en kritische beschouwing van het concept 'stochastisch terrorisme': [An exploration and critical review of the concept of 'stochastic terrorism']

Hate and Dehumanization in Russia's Narrative on Ukraine

DeepSeek's Lesson: America Needs Smarter Export Controls

What DeepSeek Really Changes About AI Competition

AI Could Pose Pandemic-Scale Biosecurity Risks: Here’s How to Make It Safer

Changes in Specialty Crisis Services Offered Before and After the Launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

How Might the United States Engage with China on AI Security Without Diffusing Technology?

The United States Needs to Stress Test Critical Infrastructure for Different AI Adoption Scenarios

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