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How to Safeguard America's Critical Infrastructure | The Foundation for American Innovation
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (238+ words) How to Safeguard America's Critical Infrastructure The Foundation for American Innovation How to Safeguard America's Critical Infrastructure Lars Erik Sch'nander and Joshua Levine The world is increasingly awash with cybersecurity incidents. In 2025, Americans alone lost over $20 billion in cybercrimes. Globally,…...
An AI Capabilities Gap Can Endanger Nuclear Deterrence | The Foundation for American Innovation
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (335+ words) An AI Capabilities Gap Can Endanger Nuclear Deterrence The Foundation for American Innovation An AI Capabilities Gap Can Endanger Nuclear Deterrence Since the late 1950s, Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) has served as a limiting factor on great-power conflict. The doctrine holds…...
What Should Be Done | The Foundation for American Innovation
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (175+ words) What Should Be Done The Foundation for American Innovation What Should Be Done On the Current State of Affairs - When President Trump signed it earlier this month, I argued that the Executive Order on Cyber and AI, which claimed to…...
Dean Ball Joins Open AI as Head of Strategic Futures | The Foundation for American Innovation
1+ week, 5+ day ago (135+ words) Some good news worth sharing with the FAI community: our colleague Dean W. Ball is joining Open AI as Head of Strategic Futures on July 6. Few people have shaped AI policy as directly as Dean, from his writing at Hyperdimensional, to…...
The State of Industrial Robotics | The Foundation for American Innovation
1+ week, 6+ day ago (297+ words) The State of Industrial Robotics The Foundation for American Innovation The State of Industrial Robotics Amelia Michael and Emerson Alden Traditional industrial robots use limited AI, so they are often left out of frontier robotics policy debates. But industrial robots…...
A Cascade of Conscientiousness | The Foundation for American Innovation
1+ week, 6+ day ago (231+ words) A Cascade of Conscientiousness The Foundation for American Innovation A Cascade of Conscientiousness A central challenge with autonomy is that the low- and medium-hanging fruit has already been plucked'sometimes long ago. Agriculture, mining, commercial aviation, and much of manufacturing are…...
The Best AI Has a Personality | The Foundation for American Innovation
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1116+ words) The Best AI Has a Personality The Foundation for American Innovation The Best AI Has a Personality What makes an AI dangerous to children? Lawmakers across the country seem to have settled on an answer. State laws like California's SB…...
America's Technologists Face a Defining National Security Moment | The Foundation for American Innovation
3+ week, 6+ day ago (252+ words) America's Technologists Face a Defining National Security Moment The Foundation for American Innovation America's Technologists Face a Defining National Security Moment My career has been built at the edge of what is physically possible " predicting exotic quantum states, developing sensors…...
America's Defenders Need an AI Fast-Lane | The Foundation for American Innovation
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (543+ words) On May 21, President Trump was prepared to sign a much-anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The order would have created a voluntary pathway for trusted federal agencies and critical-infrastructure defenders to receive up to 90 days of early access…...
Time to Take AI Consciousness Seriously | The Foundation for American Innovation
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (94+ words) Are AI systems like Claude and Chat GPT conscious beings or unfeeling calculators? This basic fact about human psychology is important to keep in mind when interacting with AI systems like Claude and Chat GPT. As a practical matter, evolution…...