Elly Rostoum
@ellyrostoum.bsky.social
Linguist | Writer | Professor 📚 All things #China #AI #NatSec #SupplyChains | Taking down bullies since 2000,"now & in the future." #ردّي_الزمر_لمّو🔥 |⚽️🏀🎾 👩🏻🏫: www.EllyRostoum.com | www.BullDragon.org ☕: http://buymeacoffee.com/ellyrostoum
My @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social's #NatSec & #EmergingTech Practicum students, remember the #targeting exercise we did during my lecture on @anthropic.com's #Claude, #AI and #surveillance? From our favorite *target*👇🕵️😉
Let us recall high school chemistry, and remember that this is #distillation👇 Chinese people are smart - with or without us. Let's win by outcompeting them. #China #AI
Elly Rostoum@ellyrostoum.bsky.social · last mo.
I am biased, but hackers (followed closely by nuns) are my favorite people.
Who Watches the Watchers? America’s Privacy Bargain Unravels | “The US is discovering its privacy framework retroactively, case by case, sometimes strengthening it and sometimes gutting its foundations.” @ellyrostoum.bsky.social
Who Watches the Watchers? America's Privacy Bargain Unravels
The Supreme Court narrowed government surveillance of Americans’ personal data while stripping away a check on the president's power.
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For decades, US #exportcontrols targeted foreign rivals. Now they've been used on a homegrown company — @anthropic.com. What's missing is a clear, predictable process for how #AI models get vetted and released — not an ad hoc kill switch pulled with a 90-minute ultimatum👇 cepa.org/article/us-a...
US AI Export Controls Miss Target
Washington banned foreigners from the most advanced artificial intelligence models —kneecapping the defenders it was claiming to protect.
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1891: Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum to tame industrial #capitalism — and nation-states could actually enforce it. 2026: Pope Leo XIV wants to tame #AI & has an unlikely ally in @anthropic.com Can global governance catch up? My take 👇 cepa.org/article/ai-c...
AI Confesses Without Penance
Pope Leo XIV wants to tame the dangers of artificial intelligence. He has unlikely allies.
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#Compute is the binding constraint on #frontierAI. The key policy levers are energy permitting, #grid & transmission buildout, advanced chip packaging, HBM #supplychains & the export controls that shape access to the world's most capable systems. More of my analysis here👇 cepa.org/article/comp...
Compute: AI Bubble or Bottleneck?
The artificial intelligence boom must overcome supply shortages to increase computing power — in both the US and China.
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My take on AI breaking #cyber 👇 #Mythos underlines an unresolved security dilemma: restricting powerful models may be just as dangerous as releasing them. USG wants control. OpenAI wants speed. AnthropicAI wants caution. Mythos is exposing the gaps in #AI governance." cepa.org/article/what...
What’s the Best Way to Defend Against AI Hacking?
Mythos underlines an unresolved security dilemma: restricting powerful models may be just as dangerous as releasing them.
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Look what @anthropic.com's Claude said about me....hahaha For the record, I'd sit with my anxious, stressed out students any day of the week and twice on Sunday! 👩🏻🏫
Setting AI Rules of Engagement | “Governments are struggling to form a coherent approach to an emerging, powerful technology that they cannot do without.” @ellyrostoum.bsky.social https://cepa.org/article/setting-ai-rules-of-engagement/
Setting AI Rules of Engagement
Governments are struggling with outdated tactics to assert control over frontier AI models, at home and abroad.
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My take on labeling #Anthropic a #supplychain risk: "The focus must be on whether #AI systems should be deployed for #masssurveillance or #autonomousweapons. Competing w/ #China is an urgent priority. But the pressure cannot lead us to abandon democratic values." cepa.org/article/sett...
Setting AI Rules of Engagement
Governments are struggling with outdated tactics to assert control over frontier AI models, at home and abroad.
cepa.org
Me yesterday trying to explain LeCun's vision of #AI to my @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social students👇 We voted on which approach is better, LeCun's or the "American model." 11:3 in favor of LeCun! (On the side with the electrons is me trying to explain mechanics of #quantum #encryption)
My take on #BIOSECURE👇@cepa.org "The BIOSECURE Act reclassifies human biological data as a strategic asset and a #nationalsecurity priority. But it didn't establish personal ownership of #genetic data. Who owns biological data? The state, the company, or the person?" #China cepa.org/article/the-...
The New National Security Risk: Biotech
Both the US and Europe are embedding biotech data into national security policy.
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The Battle Over AI Warfare and Surveillance | Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon underlines how artificial intelligence is transforming surveillance and national security. @ellyrostoum.bsky.social https://cepa.org/article/the-battle-over-ai-warfare-and-surveillance/
The Battle Over AI Warfare and Surveillance
Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon underlines how artificial intelligence is transforming surveillance and national security.
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" #AI exponentially expands the possibility of mass #surveillance. Linguists & experts are finite resources. The scarcity disciplines the scope of surveillance. AI reduces that restraint. As it becomes more integrated, the human role may narrow from judgment to oversight, to exception handling."
Center for European Policy Analysis@cepa.org · 5mo agoAI’s Expanding Battlefield | “The marginal cost of additional surveillance approaches zero.” @ellyrostoum.bsky.social
Who Owns America’s Tech Future? | “The danger is no longer limited to supply chains or manufacturing capacity. It extends to strategic military capabilities.” @ellyrostoum.bsky.social
Who Owns America's Tech Future?
A surge of foreign investment in US tech raises tough questions about supply chain security.
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A must read from me on FDI in 🇺🇸👇 "The US is effectively outsourcing portions of military technological development to venture-backed firms whose capitalization depends on global investors, even as policymakers frame technological competition in increasingly national terms." cepa.org/article/who-...
Who Owns America’s Tech Future?
A surge of foreign investment in US tech raises tough questions about supply chain security.
cepa.org
My take on export controls 👇 "The tension between the White House & Congress is a defining feature of US #tech policy. And the Supreme Court's ruling constraining sweeping #tariffs will force a reevaluation of #exportcontrols." US Chips and #China: a Confusing Cocktail cepa.org/article/us-c...
US Capitulation on Ukraine Will Bring Another War
The Congressional debate on the National Security Supplemental — legislation central to US foreign policy — is about more than Ukraine.
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Hardest lecture of the semester: explaining empire. 📸1: History of colonialism & case study of Iran’s revolutions & coup. 📸2: Fanon’s “Gaze” & Edward Said on European v 🇺🇸 imperialism. 📸3: Orientalism & othering: art as lasting medium. The students insist they understand my white board lectures!
The 1st time I read Ovid’s The Art of Love was when I was 20 working at a train station 🚉 It was gifted to me by a lovely man who made sure the trains 🚂 ran on time. Yrs later, reread it une deuxieme fois “because I was very stressed at work.” The things I’ve done because I was stressed at work…😌😎
When they make you read Samuel Huntington for homework in school, meanwhile your parents are making Iftar listening to a 600 year-old poem....😍 #RamadanMubarak y'all ♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62E...
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Chinese EVs Drive Around US Protectionism | “Protectionism has succeeded in keeping Chinese EVs out, but failed to make American car companies competitive.” @ellyrostoum.bsky.social https://cepa.org/article/chinese-evs-drive-around-us-protectionism/
Chinese EVs Drive Around US Protectionism
As China’s car companies race ahead conquering global markets with electric vehicles (EVs), US competitors retreat.
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My take on USG buying equity stakes in critical firms w/ @cepa.org: "By taking minority stakes in strategically vital firms, the US believes that market forces alone will not protect America. Despite the dangers of political interference, the logic is compelling." cepa.org/article/us-e...
US Explores State Capitalism
By taking minority stakes in strategically vital firms, Washington reshapes how it pursues national security.
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My take on the impact of #AI on #antitrust: "Antitrust must contend with market evolution moving faster than litigation. Generative AI changed the course. Landmark cases, like Standard Oil Company & AT&T, reshaped industries when tech trajectories were relatively stable." cepa.org/article/tech...
Tech Antitrust Slams Into An AI Wall
European and American regulators trying to rein in Silicon Valley’s largest digital platforms find themselves playing catch-up to innovation.
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My take on smuggling chips: “smuggling creates a black market where chips disappear into unknown end-uses with no accountability. Even if you sell to China, you must prosecute smugglers because the black market undermines any attempt at strategic control.” cyberscoop.com/white-house-...
As White House moves to send AI chips to China, Trump’s DOJ prosecutes chip smugglers
Prosecutors called criminal schemes to route computer chips to China a threat to U.S. national security, while Democrats have criticized the White House’s decision.
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Nexperia: China Puts Dutch in Check | "The Netherlands moved to place Chinese-owned Nexperia chipmaker under state supervision. China retaliated, and the Dutch backed down." @ellyrostoum.bsky.social
Nexperia: China Puts Dutch in Check
The Netherlands moved to place the Chinese-owned Nexperia chipmaker under state supervision. China retaliated, and the Dutch backed down.
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No, seriously. How f-ing cool that I can actually read this...🤯🤚
Elly Rostoum@ellyrostoum.bsky.social · 10mo agoIt occurred to me just now that I'm the real-life hot chick they bring in movies about museums & archeological artifacts to read & translate the obscure inscriptions that hold the secrets to the universe to Tom Hanks & Nicholas Cage. All the ways in which I missed my calling...🥰
