Videos

Informational Webinar

Modeling Hypersonic Missile Flight

Dr. Cameron Tracy, Dr. David Wright, Justin Ly

This webinar will walk through the purpose, capabilities, and use of the Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Simulator, a recently launched web application that enables quick and easy modeling of the flight performance of hypersonic missiles. In addition to covering detailed use cases for this tool, it will walk through BRSL’s broader work on the integration of technical analysis into global security analysis.

Informational Webinar

Algorithmic Warfare in Iran and Beyond: What Possibilities Exist for Governance?

Dr. Sarah Shoker, Dr. Jessica Dorsey, Dr. Ritwik Gupta, Dr. Michael Horowitz

The U.S. War on Iran has drawn widespread attention to the influence of AI and data science tools on military choices previously left to human judgement. At issue is whether the use of AI in military decision-making increases the risk to civilian life and if these tools accelerate the pace of war beyond the possibility of human oversight. Possible safety solutions, like improving the technical and regulatory guardrails over these systems, are meeting resistance in the United States and around the world. In the face of these challenges, how should technology, policy, and legal communities respond?

Conference

Transpacific Collaboration Forum: Japan’s Partnering Strategy to Revitalize Its Semiconductor Industry

Kazumi Nishikawa, Yasu Ota

Forum speaker event. Keynote: “From System to Silicon: Japan’s Semiconductor and Economic Security Policy”

Informational Webinar

Building a Human-Rights–Compliant Spyware Market

Elaine Korzak, Asaf Lubin

This talk, cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, looks at how a multibillion-dollar spyware industry—fueled by zero-day exploits and shielded by corporate obfuscation—has outmaneuvered every law, sanction, and enforcement measure thrown at it. Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, spoke with BRSL’s Elaine Korzak, challenging the seductive simplicity of global moratoriums on the industry, and showing how they offer little more than the illusion of safety. The talk lays out a bold blueprint for a multilateral regime that can reclaim control over current and future surveillance technologies before they irreversibly erode human rights and democratic governance.

Informational Webinar

The Question of Legitimacy in State Surveillance Operations

Elaine Korzak, Sarah McKune

In this BRSL webinar, lawyer and independent consultant Sarah McKune shares her assessment of the normalization of digital surveillance operations and the fundamental question of surveillance legitimacy under international human rights law. This discussion, cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, explored the essential components of a human rights law-compliant surveillance regime, and assessed existing gaps and challenges, drawing on the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other international normative developments, with a special highlight on the crucial role of transparency.

Informational Webinar

Fall Information Session: Graduate Certificate in Technology Policy

Prof. Andrew W. Reddie, Cara Marie Wagner

Join BRSL leadership for an overview of the Graduate Certificate in Technology Policy, including curriculum, application process, and career outcomes.

Informational Webinar

Navigating Spyware Governance, Meta’s Approach to Protecting Messaging & Social Media

Elaine Korzak, Ingrid Dickinson

In this webinar, Ingrid Dickinson will cover Meta’s approach to combatting surveillance-for-hire vendors and the private sector perspective on the spyware industry. The webinar will also touch on the limitations that private sector companies face in mitigating spyware attacks and why a whole-of-society approach is needed to build appropriate governance for this market.

Informational Webinar

Universities, R&D Funding, and American Innovation

Leah Walker, Prof. Andrew W. Reddie, Jon Metzler

This webinar continues the conversation started in Prof. Jon Metzler and Prof. Andrew Reddie’s War on the Rocks article “The Double Power Law: How American Innovation Really Works,” framing U.S. innovation as emerging from systems: publicly funded basic research and venture‐backed commercialization. Jon, Andrew, and Leah will unpack how leading research universities continue to serve as critical engines for early‐stage technology discovery, forming the foundation of a decentralized venture portfolio that gives rise to frontier technologies. The speakers, in reaction to the current university funding environment, will also discuss the importance of institutional autonomy, funding breadth, and university–laboratory–industry linkages for preserving American competitiveness.

Informational Webinar

Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls

Elaine Korzak, James Shires, Andrew J. Grotto, Giacomo Persi Paoli, Leah Walker

A round-table style discussion of Dr. Elaine Korzak’s new paper Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Dr. Korzak and BRSL Dir. Leah Walker moderated a discussion between guests James Shires, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Managing Editor of Binding Hook; Andrew J. Grotto, research scholar and co-director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University; and Dr. Giacomo Persi Paoli, the Head of Programme Security and Technology at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).