• AIA Prisoner’s Dilemma in the Race to Artificial General Intelligence

    A new report from RAND aims to represent the ongoing policy debate on the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) in a mathematically neutral model which allows policymakers to compare the outcome of alternative strategies in international technology competition.

  • COUNTER-DRONE TECHCapturing Rogue Drones

    A new system is capable of repelling and capturing unauthorized drones. The defensive system’s own drones are equipped with an extendable net which snags unruly drones.

  • FORENSICSScientists Pioneer Breakthrough Fingerprint Forensic Test

    For decades, investigators have struggled to recover fingerprints from weapons because any biological trace is usually destroyed by the high temperatures, friction and gas released after a gun is fired. Scientists have developed a method to recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible.

  • SEARCH & RESCUEUsing Smartphones to Improve Disaster Search and Rescue

    When a natural disaster strikes, time is of the essence if people are trapped under rubble.When visibility is limited, sound that can penetrate through rubble is the key to finding trapped victims quickly.

  • ENERGY SECURITYFuture of Geothermal in New Mexico

    By Diana Hackenburg

    New Mexico is known for bringing the heat with its famous green chiles, but a new report points to another source of heat that’s causing excitement. A new report lays out the opportunities —and challenges —to harnessing the state’s geothermal resources as a reliable, sustained domestic source of energy.

  • CHINA WATCHChina: An Emerging Software Power

    By Rafiq Dossani and Shanshan Mei

    China’s early success in global AI competition, bolstered by continued massive state investment and other advantages, could help it extend its dominance in international markets for manufactured goods to the software realm.

  • BIODEFENSEPhysical Approaches to Civilian Biodefense

    Progress in biological sciences and technologies will offer more opportunities to improve human well-being in the coming decades, but this progress may also lower barriers that are blocking bad actors from engineering pathogens to cause destruction. We need to identify potential preparedness measures for challenging biological threats.

  • MANUFACTURINGU.S. Can’t Overcome Manufacturing Gap with China

    By Samir Tata

    The United States should not kid itself. It will not recover its manufacturing position from China in any foreseeable future. Assuming zero growth of China’s manufacturing sector for the next 20 years, closing the manufacturing gap would require U.S. manufacturing to grow at a torrid rate of 6 percent per year. That’s just implausible.

  • AI RISKS: UNSETTLING DEMONSTRATION AI-enabled Intrusions: What Anthropic’s Disclosure Really Means

    By ASPI contributors and External contributors

    Last week, AI company Anthropic reported with ‘high confidence’ that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had weaponized Anthropic’s own AI tools to run a largely automated cyberattack on several technology firms and government agencies. The September operation is the first publicly known case of an AI system conducting target reconnaissance with only minimal human direction.

  • CHINA WATCHWorking with Japan and Korea to Compete with China on AI

    By Scott W. Harold

    Allies are an asymmetric advantage for the U.S. in its tech race with China.  New report looks at what makes Japan and South Korea critical partners for the United States in seeking to shape a world safe for democracy by leveraging the power of AI.

  • ENERGY SECURITYData Centers’ Insatiable Demand for Electricity Will Change the Entire Energy Sector

    By Sølvi Normannsen

    When the first large language models were unleashed, it triggered a headache for authorities around the world as they tried to figure out how to satisfy data centers’ endless demand for electricity.

  • CYBER RESILIENCEShared Risks, Shared Advantage: Collaborating for Collective Cyber Resilience

    By James Corera

    The same connectivity that powers our prosperity, and which has driven innovation and growth, has also created shared vulnerabilities and structural fragilities. We are increasingly seeing how a single weak link, often in a third-party provider, can cascade across industries, economies and borders.

  • AIResearchers Unveil First-Ever Defense Against Cryptanalytic Attacks on AI

    By Matt Shipman

    Security researchers have developed the first functional defense mechanism capable of protecting against “cryptanalytic” attacks used to “steal” the model parameters that define how an AI system works.

  • ECONONMIC SECURITYU.S. Economic Security: Winning the Race for Tomorrows Technologies

    Strategic competition over the world’s next generation of foundational technologies is underway, and U.S. advantages in artificial intelligence, quantum, and biotechnology are increasingly contested. The United States must address vulnerabilities and mobilize the investment needed to prevail.

  • TECH SECURITYBuilding Trust into Tech: A Framework for Sovereign Resilience

    By Jason Van der Schyff and James Corera

    Governments are facing a critical question: who can be trusted to build and manage their countries’ most sensitive systems? Vendor choices, for everything from cloud infrastructure to identity platforms, are no longer just commercial; they are strategic.