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From Diagnosis to Deterrence: The Emerging U.S. Response to Adversarial Distillation

Recent U.S. actions are laying the groundwork for imposing costs on Chinese AI labs engaged in adversarial distillation of frontier models.
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Just Security’s Artificial Intelligence Archive

Just Security's collection of 100+ articles analyzing the implications of AI for society, democracy, human rights, and warfare.
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The Governance Gap Mythos Exposed—And How to Address It

When the consequences of one corporate decision can compromise the world’s digital infrastructure, industry self-governance is not enough.
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NIST Can’t Keep Up. The Whole Digital Ecosystem Will Soon Feel It.

The United States is underinvesting in a key piece of public cyber infrastructure that many depend on to stay secure.
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Africa’s AI Strategies Cannot Say No

AI governance in Africa is reproducing extraction dynamics at a continental scale through the guise of development.
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Global Governance of Emerging Technologies: Counterterrorism Challenges at the United Nations Security Council

How the UN Security Council governs emerging technologies amid rising terrorist threats, balancing innovation, security, and human rights.
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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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