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360° View: Scaling Trusted AI in a Fragmented World

360° View: Scaling Trusted AI in a Fragmented World By Mark Kennedy, NYU DRI Director If America wants to expand global access to U.S.-aligned AI while preventing adversaries from acquiring military-relevant capabilities, policymakers must focus on more than controlling algorithms. They must also focus on shaping systems. AI competition is no longer about who invents […]

From Architecture to Execution: What It Will Take to Scale a Trusted AI Stack

The United States has stated a compelling objective: enable broad global access to U.S.-aligned AI systems while maintaining credible safeguards against military misuse and coercive deployment. While the architecture is taking shape, the more difficult task lies in execution. Recent discussions among industry, finance, government, and international participants highlighted that the central challenge is no […]

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong—And What Would Make It Right.

Globalization was once heralded as an unstoppable force for prosperity and peace. Yet as supply chains fractured, regional inequalities widened, and authoritarian leverage grew, the democratic world began to realize it had wagered more than it understood. In The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong—and What Would Make It Right, David J. […]

Can the U.S. Keep China from Disrupting U.S. Ocean Shipping?

Red Flags in the Tech Race: America Must Act Now to Preserve Its Innovation Edge

An issue getting scant attention should be among the most pressing concerns for the US. Preserving our innovation and technological edge and leadership is imperative to our economic success and to our national security. Yet that leadership faces significant threats, which are being all but ignored in the national discussion. Warning signs have been flashing red […]

Strategic Competition in the Second Trump Administration

The strategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged prominently during Donald Trump’s first administration. Policies such as tariffs and trade restrictions, initially implemented under Trump, were subsequently maintained and expanded under Joe Biden’s administration. Now, as the makeup of the second Trump Administration takes shape and following the […]

America’s AI Strategy: Playing Defense While China Plays to Win

America is making a critical mistake in its AI strategy—it is overreaching in playing defense but doing the opposite in playing offense. While Washington is busy building regulatory walls to restrict access to AI compute power (a term encompassing computational resources used to train and run AI models), China is circumventing these barriers and strategically developing asymmetric advantages. […]