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Jun 26, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Samuel Bendett |Paul Scharre |Alexandra Seymour |Sam Howell
The possible strategic advantages of quantum computing are significant, and the United States is locked in a high-stakes global competition to secure leadership in the field. The first country to build, scale, and commercialize a quantum computer will gain a toolkit of capabilities that can overwhelm unprepared adversaries, as well as an upper hand in establishing market dominance and setting technology standards.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Sam Howell |Alexandra Seymour |Hannah Kelley |Paul Scharre
Until recently, AI has been a diffuse technology that rapidly proliferates. Open-source AI models are readily available online. The recent shift to large models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is concentrating power in the hands of large tech companies that can afford the computing hardware needed to train these systems. The balance of global AI power will hinge on whether AI concentrates power in the hands of a few actors, as nuclear weapons did, or proliferates widely, as smartphones have.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
warontherocks.com | Alexandra Seymour
Americans are not equipped with the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills that they need to succeed in the face of technological change. Although the United States used to lead globally in STEM skills, it now ranks 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science.
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May 30, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Alexandra Seymour
The California Legislature is currently reviewing AB 1484 (Zbur), a bill that would add Section 3507.7 to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA). Proponents of the bill hope that it will address an increase in public agency use of temporary employees, aiming to bring equity to temporary employees who perform similar work as permanent employees but without some of the benefits afforded to permanent employees.
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May 17, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Paul Scharre |Alexandra Seymour |Bill Drexel |Hannah Kelley
Few early observers of the Cold War could have imagined that the worst nuclear catastrophe of the era would occur at an obscure power facility in Ukraine. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster was the result of a flawed nuclear reactor design and a series of mistakes made by the plant operators. The fact that the world’s superpowers were spiraling into an arms race of potentially world-ending magnitude tended to eclipse the less obvious dangers of what was, at the time, an experimental new technology.
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May 16, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Paul Scharre |Alexandra Seymour |Sam Howell |Tim Fist
U.S. export controls, as they stand, do not control the provision of cloud computing services and do not stop Chinese companies from accessing controlled chips via Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). In fact, a recent media report alleges that at least one problematic actor in China has found a way around the October 7, 2022 U.S. semiconductor export controls by accessing controlled chips via a CSP.
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May 16, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Paul Scharre |Alexandra Seymour |Sam Howell
Can Congress keep up with the pace of growth in artificial intelligence? Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security talks about the current attempts to regulate A.I.Listen to the full story from NPR All Things Considered.
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May 16, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alexandra Seymour |Sam Howell |Paul Scharre
This step to restrict data access is part of a larger crackdown by China’s leaders on information coming out of China. These moves make the United States and China both less safe. As Washington and Beijing view each other with increasing hostility, the two nations need more information and dialogue — not less — to manage the growing risks of U.S.-China competition. Read the full article from The Messenger.
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May 1, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Alexandra Seymour |Ines Kagubare
Image credit: JITCJI/Wikimedia/Public Domain May 01, 2023 Source: The Hill Journalist Ines Kagubare “I think that this is one way to try to be proactive in terms of ensuring that if something were to happen — and knowing that cyberspace is going to be vulnerable — that we’re going to try to bolster up defenses as much as we can early on,” said Alexandra Seymour, an associate fellow for the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Securitya non-partisan think...
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Apr 30, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Paul Scharre |Alexandra Seymour |Sam Howell
U.S. policymakers are right to identify quantum information science as a critical technology area ripe for restriction, but introducing export controls now is likely to cause more harm than good. Establishing U.S. leadership in quantum information science, which includes the subfields of quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communications, ranks among the Biden administration’s highest national security priorities.
