Privatized cyberwar will complicate oversight, create counterintelligence risks, fuel arms races and insecurity, and put civilians at risk. On March 6, the Trump administration published its long-awaited cyberstrategy. Among its themes is a conspicuously…
On Feb. 12, an X account for Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the crypto trading platform FTX, posted, “Under Biden, companies were forced offshore. Under @realDonaldTrump, they’re welcome back in America. Insane…
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As increasingly realistic deepfakes depict us against our will, a century-old law originally made for cameras may offer a solution. In the past few weeks, news about Grok—xAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI)…
On March 20, the White House released its long-awaited National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence for Congress. The four-page document, described by the White House as a “comprehensive national legislative framework,” is thin on…
Allowing this unprecedented practice to continue risks making the United States both economically weaker and less safe. In late December, in what seemed like the end of a five-year saga, TikTok agreed to spin…
OMB’s latest memo promotes neutral AI in government but allows vendor self-evaluation and weak scrutiny of existing contracts. On Dec. 11, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a new…
When procedural guarantees exist on paper but remain invisible in practice, they offer little meaningful protection. The gap between formal institutional design and lived user experience is nowhere more apparent than in…
U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran mark yet another escalation in a period of rapidly expanding U.S. military activity stretching from Yemen and Nigeria to the Caribbean, Venezuela, and now direct confrontation…
The war with Iran is being fought in new domains, from cyberspace to outer space. Editor’s Note: Of the many dimensions of the war against Iran, the cyber realm is one of the…
Aside from one disruptive attack, Iran’s cyber retaliation against U.S. and Israeli strikes has been largely missing in action. But there are reasons to believe in the longer term the war will…
