One of the joys of working at the intersection between tech and national security is that the space is always changing. One of the challenges of teaching tech and national security is … the space is always changing. 1/4

New Publication Alert: I am thrilled to share that the “Handbook on the Politics of International Agreements” is now available for purchase. 1/3

I had the pleasure of reviewing four fantastic books this year for ‘Survival: Global Politics and Strategy’: 📚 Katrina Manson's Project Maven 📚 Jon Lindsay's Age of Deception 📚 Max Smeets' Ransom War 📚 Justin Sherman' Navigating Technology and National Security 1/2

New Publication Alert: It is my pleasure to share that my recent report – coauthored with Alexander Leslie and Taylor Grossman through the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology (CSINT) at American University – is now live. 1/8 www.au-csint.com/publications...

Beyond Breaches: The Spectrum of Costs from Espionage and Pre-Positioning — CSINT

What are the costs of cyber espionage? And how do they differ from those of operations designed to prepare for attack?

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The @bindinghook.bsky.social Live agenda is out! I’m honored to join a truly impressive group of people “where digital tech and global affairs meet” later this month in London. I’ll be presenting my research on AI compute, and why chips aren’t enough. See you there! bindinghooklive.com/agenda/

🗓️ #BindingHookLive agenda is out now! Check it out & request your invite: bindinghooklive.com/agenda/

Over the past few weeks, I had the pleasure of supporting the SAIS Trilateral Technogy Training Program here in DC and the Bay Area with programming dedicated to #semiconductors, #compute infrastructure, and #AI. 1/3

Looking forward to speaking at #PLAITS2025 today on national security, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors. Hope to see many of you there: futurerealities.org/PLAITS2025/i...

PLAITS 2025 – Privacy and Liberty in the Age of AI and Immersive Technologies

Join us for PLAITS 2025, a micro-think tank conference exploring the intersection of privacy, liberty, and emerging technologies.

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Kicking off a week focused on #AI and #semiconductors with the Special Competitive Studies Project’s #SCSPAIExpo25 here in DC. If you are in town, drop me a line.

Last month, I had the pleasure of organizing and moderating a panel delving into the different technologies that fuel artificial intelligence innovation and that underpin the AI triad, including but not limited to energy, data centers, models, and semiconductors.  Post-event writeup here ⬇️

What’s next for AI: Overcoming the barriers to sustained AI growth

Policy and AI leaders outline the current state and potential trajectory of AI capabilities in the U.S. and what can help keep the country at the forefront of AI innovation.

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As the inaugural @iaseai.bsky.social conference wraps this evening in Paris, I am hustling back to my hotel room to (virtually) teach Johns Hopkins SAIS students about AI and national security. Looking forward to reflecting on several IASEAI discussions in my classroom with policy students.

At #IASEAI25 today, @katecrawford.bsky.social’s tour de force talk on sustainability further drove home, for me, the importance of framing #AI as a Fulcrum Technology. For those who want to learn more about what Fulcrum Technologies are (and are not), an introduction can be found below. 1/2

The Challenges of Policy in an Era of Fulcrum Technologies - War on the Rocks

Last month, Alliant Energy announced it will delay converting its Wisconsin coal plant by three years. This delay underscores an important tension: While

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As Paris welcomes the world for the AI Summit, I am thrilled to be here and participating in #IASEAI25 over the next two days. Drop me a line if you are also in town and would like to connect on all things #AI #natsec and #semiconductors / #compute. 1/2

A podcast I recorded a few days after the election on #semiconductors, #AI, and #natsec just dropped. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts, including ⬇️ It is also well worth checking out their recent episodes with Gavin Wilde (foreign influence ops) and Greg Falco (space & cyber).

AI Semiconductors Security

Podcast Episode · The Looking Glass · 12/11/2024 · 30m

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Are you a mid-career government official from the US, Japan, or South Korea interested in #AI, #cybersecurity, #biotech, #space, #semiconductors, #greentech? Join @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social for the 2025 Trilateral Technology Leaders Training Program. Additional details below ⬇️

Olga Belogolova 🌻@olgs7.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Trilateral Technology Leaders Training Program 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷 hosted by @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social is now accepting apps for its 2025 cohort! Join a fully-funded, 3-week program for mid-career govt officials from US, Japan, ROK on emerging tech in DC & Silicon Valley. sais.fillout.com/trilateraltech

Your cousin just asked about tariffs at Thanksgiving dinner and everyone got quiet. Let's break down how they actually work using what's on your dinner table - and why they usually end up costing families like yours more money. 1/

New export controls focused on advanced #computing and #semiconductors were announced today. Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security announcement: lnkd.in/enzhMTgD New Entity List & Validated End-User rules: lnkd.in/e6jisHdw New Foreign Direct Product & other export controls: lnkd.in/eWB4RUEe

This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing: Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists. Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say

The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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One reason I'm cautiously excited that we reached critical mass here is that Bluesky finally has the same intersection of people I cared about on Twitter - natsec, infosec, academia, and journos.

Congratulations to the entire @virtualroutes.bsky.social team!

Virtual Routes@virtualroutes.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Virtual Routes is here! ECCRI and ECCRI CIC are now Virtual Routes, an organization dedicated to tackling the impact of digital technologies on global affairs through research, education, and public engagement. Find out more on our new site: virtual-routes.org #VirtualRoutes

One of the many pleasures of teaching at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is the caliber of our students. Shout out to Stavros Piperidis for spearheading this important site visit to NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT). Read and learn more ⬇️ 1/2

Students Learn from Key Leaders in NATO Site Visit

On November 1, 2024, a group of 29 Johns Hopkins SAIS students and two faculty members traveled to Norfolk, Virginia for a site visit to the NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) headquarters.

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Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...

Featuring the substance of our pre-lunchtime talk from Steven Adair @cyberwarcon.bsky.social

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi. www.wired.com/story/russia...

Another excellent JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute skills course on the books. If you haven’t had a chance to take this workshop with @jags.bsky.social, I highly recommend it. Additional details ⬇️

Alperovitch Institute@alperovitch.institute · 2y ago

We are very excited to offer our very popular Hands-on Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering Primer, taught by @jags.bsky.social! WHEN: 5 DAYS – Dec 1 - Dec 5, 2024 | 10 – 4PM Non-Hopkins interested participants, contact @ellyrostoum.bsky.social. alperovitch.sais.jhu.edu/jags-malware...

Another excellent #CYBERWARCON in the books! World class lineup of speakers and, as always, great to see everyone. No better way to spend the day.

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting my research on critical technologies and technology policy - from AI to semiconductors - at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research. A special thanks to Mike Albertson and Katie Thomas for inviting me. 1/3

I am very much looking forward to speaking at American University School of International Service’s conference on Ally-Shoring and South Korea’s High-Tech Industry on Nov. 15. From semiconductors to cybersecurity, South Korea is a critical partner and global player. Registration and agenda ⬇️

Genuinely excited to see more folks switching to Bsky and the possibility of having discourse that isn’t immediately assumed to be toxic.

“Operations, cyber or otherwise, rarely fall into a grey zone by chance. They are calibrated to land there—to take full advantage of the ambiguities of the space—or they routinely land there due to the technical and operational realities of the domain itself.” More ⬇️

Melissa K. Griffith@melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 2y ago

The “messy middle between war and peace is not the only grey zone that hackers are exploiting. They are also straddling the line between “crime and statecraft” and the distinction between “espionage and attacks”." Read my latest piece in Articles of War below.

“Without secure, scalable, and sustainable access to high-performance computing—the chips underpinning AI, the data centers and devices housing them, and the energy grids powering them—the United States risks ceding the initiative and the contours of our collective AI future to others.” More ⬇️

Transatlantic Cooperation in the Next U.S. Administration

The next U.S. president will be confronted with a plethora of global challenges: war in Europe, a disordered trading system, growing geopolitical competition and a more assertive China, disruptive new...

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