Past Events

The LLM Mirage: Economic Interests and the Subversion of Weaponization Controls

LLM Mirage, the belief that national security risks scale in proportion to the compute used to train frontier language models, is shaping U.S. AI security policy. This piece unpacks why that belief may be misguided.

Ritwik Gupta, Andrew Reddie

The Key Challenges of Governing Commercial Spyware

Explaining key issues holding up progress in commercial spyware governance.

Dr. Elaine Korzak

Regulating Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls

Insights offered by the Wassenaar export controls into the regulation of commercial spyware — and why that, in turn, makes them instructive for current initiatives like the Pall Mall Process.

Dr. Elaine Korazak

Taiwan Can’t Shake Its Nuclear Ghosts

Taiwan’s anti-nuclear political legacy has left it highly dependent on imported fuels and vulnerable to a potential Chinese blockade, forcing a debate over whether to revive a nuclear power program with a complex and fraught history.

Jane Darby Menton, Andrew Reddie

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Russian Nuclear ASAT Weapons: The Fallout

Reports that Russia is developing a nuclear-tipped anti-satellite weapon raised concerns about potential violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, and promted a debate over whether existing international frameworks are sufficient in managing the growing risks of space militarization.

Sarthak Bhatnagar, Eli Glickman, Bethany Goldblum, Ritwik Gupta, Kaitlyn Lenkeit, Jane Darby Menton, Andrew Neciuk, Andrew Reddie, Vishwaa Sofat, Leah Walker

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2/26/24 | NPWG hosts Dr. Erik Brubaker

2/26/24 | NPWG hosts Dr. Erik Brubaker

Date: February 26 Location: UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1995 University Ave. Time: 5:30-7 pm PT NPWG is thrilled to host Dr. Erik Brubaker from Sandia National Laboratories for a conversation about arms control verification...

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Introducing the Risk Calculus

Introducing the Risk Calculus

The Risk Calculus is a new podcast series from the UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. In Season One, join Professor Andrew Reddie for a deep dive into wargaming, an old way of thinking about risks that is being applied in new ways to some of today's most pressing...

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