Frontier models, AI policy, US–China rivalry, and the international governance architecture.
AI capability has become a measure of national power and a geopolitical race for superiority. The competition covers frontier model development, US–China rivalry, industrial policy, export controls, military integration, and the international safety and governance architecture forming around frontier models.
Publications
“China’s Challenge to American AI Leadership”
This congressional testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy examines China's challenge to American leadership in artificial intelligence. It outlines the strategic, industrial, and policy choices facing the United States in the U.S.–China AI competition.
Opportunities to Strengthen U.S. Biosecurity from AI-Enabled Bioterrorism: What Policymakers Should Know
This report examines how advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping biosecurity threats and the bioterrorism risk landscape. It identifies concrete steps the U.S. government and industry can take to strengthen biosecurity defenses against AI-enabled bioweapon development.
DeepSeek: A Deep Dive
This congressional testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology examines DeepSeek's release and what it reveals about the U.S.–China AI race. It analyzes DeepSeek's actual hardware footprint and the implications for U.S. semiconductor export-control policy.
Where strategic technologies meet geopolitics. Timely, evidence-based analysis of the big policy debates in AI, semiconductors, and defense tech.
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