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The coming AI presidency will demand careful preparation—not only to adapt to potential changes in U.S. policy but also to safeguard international collaboration on AI governance.

The Trump administration can open up other opportunities to advance broader policy, national security, and even economic objectives.

Despite the climate finance agreement, COP29 appears to have pumped the brakes on the momentum put in place after COP28 in Dubai.

Atrocity-prevention systems developed before the spread of new technologies need to more systematically account for their impacts.

The world is on the brink of a quantum revolution and the U.S. lead is narrowing rapidly.

Critics of open source AI must consider the security implications of strategic competition with China.

The hand-counting rule provides foreign adversaries with a potentially tailor-made narrative to spread election disinformation.

Winning the global AI innovation race requires more than export controls.

The TikTok ban is a reincarnation of past reactionary efforts to limit Americans from accessing media from abroad.

The democratic world must side with pro-democracy, peace, and anti-corruption movements in Africa and act against corrupt networks.

Internal repression -- more than 1,400 political prisoners -- extends outward, too, as dictator Alexander Lukashenka's threatens US and EU security with hybrid ops and nuclear…

Joining this episode are Jim Foley’s mother, Diane Foley, and Luke Hartig, a former senior director at the National Security Council.