Past Events

Wargaming Deception

A new report on using wargaming as a tool to analyze deception in the context of international security.

Hiroyasu Akutsu, Ruby Booth, Rex Brynen, Scott DeJong, Stephen Downes-Martin, Richard Garber, Mark Howard, Alex Karasick, Andrew Reddie

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

Proliferate, Don’t Obliterate: How Responsive Launch Marginalizes Anti-Satellite Capabilities

Ritwik Gupta (BRSL Graduate Fellow) and Dr. Andrew Reddie (BRSL Faculty Director) discuss the value of responsive launch as a response to anti-satellite strikes.

Confidence-Building Measures for Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Andrew Reddie (BRSL Faculty Director), Dr. Sarah Shoker, and Leah Walker (BRSL Assistant Director) summarize the findings of a joint BRSL-OpenAI workshop and workshop report exploring confidence building measures to counter AI risks to international security.

Putting the Biden Administration’s “New Economic Statecraft” in Context

Citing national security concerns, the United States is increasingly using “new economic statecraft,” strategies including export controls, domestic industrial policy, and investment restrictions, to limit China’s access to critical technologies like semiconductors.

Vinod K. Aggarwal, Andrew Reddie

Putting the Biden Administration’s “New Economic Statecraft” in Context

Dr. Vinod K. Aggarwal and Dr. Andrew Reddie (BRSL Faculty Director) examine the Biden Administration's economic policy and the difficulties faces the U.S. in an increasingly competitive international system.

Confidence-Building Measures for Artificial Intelligence

In a workshop hosted by BRSL in conjunction with the Geopolitics Team at OpenAI, a multisteakholder group of experts explored how specific confidence-building measures can mitigate international security risks posed by foundation models.

Sarah Shoker, Andrew Reddie, Sarah Barrington, Ruby Booth, Miles Brundage, Husanjot Chahal, Michael Depp, Bill Drexel, Ritwik Gupta, Marina Favaro, Jake Hecla, Alan Hickey, Margarita Konaev, Kirthi Kumar, Nathan Lambert, Andrew Lohn, Cullen O’Keefe, Nazneen Rajani, Michael Sellitto, Robert Trager, Leah Walker, Alexa Wehsener, Jessica Young