CNAS Technology and National Security Program

🗓️ Today @ 2:30pm ET Join CNAS for a virtual discussion about the technical and policy challenges to making orbital data centers a viable alternative to America’s AI buildout. Featuring: 🎙️ Slava Turyshev 🎙️ Ronald J. Birk 🎙️ Carolyn Mahoney 🎙️@Constanza_MVB

🗓️ Sept. 9 @ 2:30pm ET Join CNAS for a virtual discussion about the technical and policy challenges to making orbital data centers a viable alternative to America’s AI buildout. Featuring: 🎙️ Slava Turyshev 🎙️ Ronald J. Birk 🎙️ Carolyn Mahoney 🎙️ @Constanza_MVB

The CNAS Technology and National Security Program is looking for our next intern, starting in May! If you want to support cutting-edge policy research to advance U.S. leadership in AI, biotech, quantum, and more, please apply at the link below by April 3. 👇👇👇

🚨 We have two open roles at CNAS to work at the intersection of AI, tech, and national security. This is a terrific opportunity to work on the most consequential technology policy issues with the best colleagues around. 1⃣Associate Fellow 2⃣Intern Apply below 👇

"Washington’s challenge is meeting Saudi demand without compromising sensitive U.S. technologies, offshoring leadership at the AI frontier, or enabling greater digital authoritarianism," argues @vivekchil and @rubyscanlon in a CNAS report.⬇️

“Proactive U.S. commercial diplomacy that combines high-level outreach, strategic investment, and the innovative reputation of U.S. technology products will remain essential to offset China’s influence in Kenya,” argues @vivekchil and @rubyscanlon in a major report⬇️

“Leaders across the region recognize that stronger cybersecurity is essential to realizing a future for the Indo-Pacific defined not by fears of digital vulnerability, but shared aspirations for greater connectivity, prosperity, and partnership,” CNAS experts write in a report.⬇️

⚛️ Tune in next week Wednesday, August 27, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET for a timely discussion on “Advancing America’s Quantum Leadership with Next-Generation Sensors." 🎙️John Burke 🎙️Jamil Abo-Shaeer 🎙️@Constanza_MVB 🎙️ Bonnie Marlow Register now⬇️⬇️

“If current AI development trends continue, securing and extending U.S. access to a robust compute ecosystem will play a decisive role in whether the United States leads the world in AI or cedes its leadership to competitors," argues @janet_e_egan in a new report ⬇️

Join CNAS on Monday, July 21, 2025, 9:00am to 10:00am ET for a virtual event on "Strengthening Cyber Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific." The event will be moderated by @vivekchil and will feature cybersecurity experts from across the region. Register now⬇️

🚨 The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is hiring for *five* new AI positions! 🚨 This is a terrific opportunity to work on some of the most fascinating, fast-moving, and consequential policy issues of our time with the best colleagues around.

Join CNAS tomorrow, April 29, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. ET for a discussion exploring the U.S.-China AI competition and its impact on global norms surrounding autonomous weapons, surveillance states, human genetic engineering, and tech-induced crises. Register below ⬇️

"America must work with its allies to forge new technological partnerships that reflect liberal and democratic values in order to counter and outcompete a formidable digital China," argues Adjunct Senior Fellow @KeeganMcB in @RCDefense ⬇️

"Sino-American AI competition today is poised to redefine conflict norms, state power, emerging bioethics, and catastrophic risks—four domains demanding deliberate attention due to their world-altering significance," argues @bill_drexel in a new report⬇️

"A single large-scale AI disaster—be it in cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, or biotechnology—could undermine public trust, stall innovation, and leave the United States trailing global competitors," argues @janet_e_egan and Cole Salvador in @just_security ⬇️

Interested in working on AI, quantum, biotech, and other emerging technologies? Join us! The CNAS Technology and National Security Program is recruiting a Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Research Intern. Apply at the link below⬇️

"Chinese companies—particularly Huawei—have been heavily involved in Indonesian smart cities, capitalizing on the country’s troubling appetite for facial recognition and other AI-enabled surveillance." Learn how the U.S. can counter China's Digital Silk Road in Indonesia ⬇️