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A Feasible Precaution Ignored: AI Targeting Algorithms and the Failure to Recognize Protected Emblems

Ensuring algorithms recognize protected emblems is an achievable first step to protect civilians and prevent future AI-enabled tragedies.
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The Case for Imposing Costs on China’s AI Distillation Campaigns

The U.S. government should respond to Chinese AI adversarial distillation attacks with a layered set of established legal authorities.
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Will the Next U.N. Counterterrorism Strategy Hold States Accountable For Their Use of AI?

The 9th U.N. Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy should insist that AI-enabled counterterrorism policies and practices demonstrably comply with international law.
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Beware the AI Preemption Trap

The White House's National AI Policy Framework asks Congress to shut down the only governments that are regulating AI, in exchange for a federal regime that would not.
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How Iran, Anthropic-DoD Dispute Show the Need for Protective AI

The Iran War and the public rupture between DoD and Anthropic point to a fundamental imbalance in current military AI.
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The Trump Administration Has a Cyber Strategy. Does It Have a Plan?

The real test will be whether clearer policy guidance, legal authorities, and institutional structures follow the Trump administration's Cyber Strategy for America.
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When AI Runs the Operations: Autonomous Agents and the Future of Cyber Competition

Stakeholders have a narrowing window to shape what comes next with highly autonomous cyber-capable AI agents—before capabilities increase further and incentives harden.
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AI is the New Plastics. Can We Govern it Better?

Like plastic, AI is permeating every corner of life. But there is still time to manage AI better than we did with synthetics.
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Grok Showed the World What Ungoverned AI Looks Like

As the Grok case demonstrated, AI harms will continue to unfold without trusted channels between governments, industry and civil society.
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Artificial Urgency: Reflecting on AI Hype at the 2026 REAIM Summit

The 2026 REAIM Summit demonstrated the ongoing misalignment between global initiatives, industry narratives around AI capabilities, and the realities of military AI use.
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The War on Anthropic: Pretextual Designation and Unlawful Punishment

The Trump administration’s salvo against Anthropic is invalidated by statutory limits, First Amendment freedoms, and the Constitution’s absolute bar against bills of attainder
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Human Rights at Risk in the Sprint Toward AI Sovereignty

Policymakers and the private sector should work with civil society to ensure that the pursuit of “sovereign AI” does not undermine fundamental rights.
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