Past Events
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...
2/13/24 | National Security in an Uncertain World with Dr. Kimberly S. Budil
BRSL is delighted to host Dr. Kimberly S. Budil, the Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for our next speaker series event. Dr. Budil, who is responsible for the laboratory’s strategic vision, will discuss the lab’s unique role in the national security...
LAION and the Challenges of Preventing AI-Generated CSAM
The discovery of child sexual abuse material in a major AI training dataset has exposed legal and ethical challenges for law enforcement and policymakers, highlighting the urgent need to update legislation and create new industry standards to combat the creation and spread of harmful, AI-generated content.
Cyber Wargames as Synthetic Data
A look into why war games are an increasingly important tool for generating synthetic data to study the complex issue of cyber conflict and escalation, allowing researchers to analyze how different factors influence decision-making in cyberspace despite a lack of real-world data.
Frank L. Smith III, Nina A. Kollars, and Benjamin H. Schechter, Editors
Searching for Global Equilibrium: How new economic statecraft undermines international institutions
Amid the growing threat that “new economic statecraft” poses to global economic stability, this paper evaluates institutional approaches to constrain state-led interventions in trade and investment.
Vinod K. Aggarwal , Andrew W. Reddie
Securing Taiwan’s Satellite Infrastructure Against China’s Reach
China’s cyber and space capabilities continue to pose a significant threat to Taiwan’s infrastructure, making the need for Taiwan to develop its own satellite communication network becomes more dire.