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Protecting America’s S&T Ecosystem
5+ hour, 41+ min ago (601+ words) Over time, the bridge between concealment and espionage have proven difficult to establish in court, the research community writ large has (consequently) remained resistant to change, and the PRC has amplified the impact of U.S. research security measures and prosecutorial failures…...
What exactly does “all lawful use” of AI mean? No one knows.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (232+ words) What exactly does "all lawful use" of AI mean? No one knows." As a result of this weekend's highly-publicized Department of Defense (DoD)-Anthropic dispute, we're hearing a lot about the "lawful use" of frontier AI systems in classified environments....
There Are Better Ways to Streamline Satellite Licensing - Federation of American Scientists
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (220+ words) The Federation of American Scientists supports Congress" ongoing bipartisan efforts to strengthen U.S. leadership with respect to outer space activities, including the Senate"s unanimous passage of the Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act in 2023, and the introduction of the Dark and Quiet…...
Measuring AI’s Energy/Environmental Footprint to Access Impacts
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (584+ words) Inconsistent metrics and opaque reporting make future AI power'demand estimates extremely uncertain, leaving grid planners in the dark and climate targets on the line. Legacy measures like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) miss what is important for AI compute efficiency, such…...