OpenAI
How the US Can Fight Foreign Malign Influence
The most effective strategy to combat foreign influence is to ensure the effort remains unpoliticized and non-partisan.
Op-eds
AI Is a Gift to Cyber Scammers and Nation-State Hackers This Holiday Season
This holiday season, the Grinch is using a computer to steal Christmas. The Department of Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) released its annual consumer...
Policy Briefs
China Could Win AI Fight
In August, Chinese researchers debuted the world’s largest brain-inspired supercomputer. The Darwin Monkey is just the latest in a string of People’s Republic of China (PRC) artificial intelligence...
Op-eds
FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation That Began More Than 3 Years Ago
Memos
Why Export Controls Work: 5 Debunked Myths About U.S.-China AI Competition
America’s artificial intelligence (AI) edge faces a determined challenger: Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
Insights
Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Polysilicon and Its Derivatives
Public Comments
Innovation in the Crosshairs
Countering China’s Industrial Espionage
Congressional Testimonies
FDD Unmasks Iranian Man Behind Crowdfunding Bounty for Trump’s Assassination
There’s a crowdfunding effort to encourage the assassination of President Donald Trump, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has unmasked an Iranian national who helped create it. Thaar[.]ir,...
Policy Briefs
FDD Uncovers Large Iranian Network Impersonating Israelis on Social Media
An Iranian social media operation is instructing its audience how to use AI and create fake accounts on X where they pose as Israelis and post demoralizing messages in Hebrew...
Policy Briefs
New Report Shows How China Uses AI to Augment its Online Intelligence Operations
By Max Lesser Artificial intelligence (AI) empowers China to conduct operations that blur the line between collecting sensitive information and influencing public opinion, and a June 10 report by...
Policy Briefs
Russia aims to ride the BRICS to AI victory
The United States must firm up its own coalition of AI collaborators.
Op-eds
Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion
Public Comments
Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure on DOE Lands
Public Comments
AI Power Demand Is Remaking Our Energy Ecosystem – While Painting a Target on Its Back
Even in its most conservative projections, AI-driven booms in electricity use are poised to provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and imperative – to secure our grid against PRC cyber attacks OpenAI...
Op-eds
To Beat China, America Must Balance AI Innovation with National Security
While the White House is busy restricting trade with China, it keeps unlocking the back gate. Even as the Department of Commerce expanded export restrictions on March 26 to prevent...
Op-eds
What DeepSeek taught us about the gaps in US tech strategy
The emergence of DeepSeek underlines a lesson to American tech companies and regulators: China has a far greater edge over the US in encouraging efficiency innovation and scalability. To maintain its competitive advantage, Washington must re-evaluate its current approach to one that goes beyond tech denial to include cost-cutting innovation at home and making friends globally.
Op-eds
Russia’s AI-Powered Cyberattacks Threaten to Outpace Western Defenses
Russia is increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence to refine its cyber espionage and enhance attack precision, warned Western officials at the Munich Security Conference this past weekend.
Policy Briefs
America’s Adversaries Use AI for Malign Influence, But Not to Great Effect … Yet
Iran, China, and Russia all used Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini to accelerate their influence operations (IO), Google warned in a new report published on January 29. At...
Policy Briefs
How to Beat China in the Quest for AI Dominance
The next administration must recognize that getting ahead in the AI race will both protect U.S. national security and stem the global spread of authoritarianism.