Podcasts
BRSL is home to three podcasts: the Risk Calculus, Levels of Analysis, and the BRSL Weekly Brief. The Risk Calculus takes listeners on a deep dive exploring pressing questions at the intersection of technology and national security in a multiple-episode mini-series format. The BRSL Weekly Brief is a weekly news podcast. And Levels of Analysis provides a deeper exploration of recent Lab research.
BRSL Weekly Brief
The Weekly Brief is BRSL’s news podcast, focused on understanding current events. Hosted by BRSL Communications Manager Vivian Bossieux-Skinner, each week features an interview-based discussion with lab experts and occasional external guests. Subscribe
New White House Funding Blueprint: a Focus on AI
This episode examines a new Trump administration report outlining its vision for federally funded research and development (R&D), with particular attention to AI. BRSL Faculty Dir. Andrew Reddie argues that the report represents a significant shift away from the post-World War II model established by Vannevar Bush, under which the federal government funded basic research at universities through agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and DARPA. Instead, the administration appears to favor a more venture capital-like (“VCification”) approach that prioritizes commercialization and later-stage technology development over early-stage scientific research.
Host: Vivian Bossieux-Skinner, BRSL
Guest: Prof. Andrew W. Reddie, BRSL
Levels of Analysis
This podcast series is aimed at breaking down BRSL’s work on understanding and managing emerging risks at the intersection of security and technology — one episode at a time. Each episode acts as a companion to recent research at the lab, and provides in-depth explanation and analysis that goes along with the written publication.
The Risk Calculus
The Risk Calculus is our mini-series podcast: each season we do a deep dive on a different topic related to the Lab’s mission and work, interviewing experts in that area. Our first season featured Lab Faculty Director Professor Andrew Reddie discussing wargames. Listen in below.
Season 1: Shall We Play a Game?
In our first five-part mini-series, Professor Andrew Reddie takes a deep dive into an old way of thinking about risks that is being applied in new ways both here at the lab and beyond — wargaming. The renaissance of wargaming in academic and policy circles, along with a growing public interest in this approach to risk analysis, make it an ideal time to examine the method’s past, present, and future. What is a wargame? Who designs and plays these games? And how should we interpret what they tell us?
To unpack these questions, Andrew is joined by guests working at the cutting edge of research and practice.
