Chinmayi Sharma Discusses AI Safety and its Role in Reconciling Agile Development
Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently coauthored an article in Tech Policy Press entitled, “Reconciling Agile Development With AI Safety” which focused on how implementing responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development faces a challenge in reconciling government frameworks’ principles with the fast-paced Agile processes of tech companies. Per Sharma, “For AI…
Adam Klein Examines National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards in Lawfare
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently wrote an article on Lawfare, “Safe and Free: National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards Across Rule-of-Law States.” The decade since Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks has been characterized by global debates on intelligence agencies respecting civil liberties and privacy, with major reforms enacted in rule-of-law…
Strauss Center Brumley Fellow Bailey Crane Awarded Westin Scholar Award
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law in collaboration with the Center for Identity at the University of Texas at Austin are excited to announce that Bailey Crane has been selected as the university’s International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Westin Scholar Award recipient for the 2023-2024 award round. Bailey Crane is a second-year graduate student,…
Professor Kuperman Examines U.S. Military Technology
Alan Kuperman, Strauss Distinguished Scholar and coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, appeared in News Network’s article “US research on bomb-grade uranium alternative in Navy vessels advances” regarding technological advancements in the U.S. military to lower uranium and nuclear proliferation risks. “The program is vital to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, is making…
Sharma Writes on Artificial Intelligence
Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, wrote an article in Lawfare about how organizations should use Artificial Intelligence responsibly. The article, entitled “Setting a Higher Bar: Professionalizing AI Engineering,” outlines opportunities and threats of growing artificial intelligence usage. “A big year for artificial intelligence (AI) is…
Klein Publishes Lawfare Article on Strauss’ New Surveillance Paper Series
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein recently published an article in Lawfare on “Safe and Free: National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards Across Rule-of-Law States.” This article offers a brief overview of the new project launched by the Strauss Center called “Safe and Free: National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States.” This paper series…
Hirsch Publishes on China and the Future of the U.S.-Israel Alliance
Jordan Hirsch, Senior fellow in the Technology, Security, and Global Affairs Program at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was recently published in the Autumn 2023 issue of SAPIR Journal in an article titled “China and the Future of the U.S.-Israel Alliance.” Hirsch argues “If Israel is not on the geographic frontier…
Professor Barany Discusses China’s Military Shortcomings
Zoltan Barany, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, appeared in The Strategist’s article by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and spoke on China’s military as tensions rise with the United States. In the article titled “Be Alert to China’s…
Chinmayi Sharma Discusses AI Self-Regulation
Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently published an article in Lawfare entitled “The Chaos at OpenAI is a Death Knell for AI Self-Regulation.” “For decades, technology companies were shielded from accountability… This underscores the conclusion the security community came to long ago: Industry incentives are not only inadequate to foster…
CAMPI Releases November 2023 Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border Report
The Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI), led by our CAMPI Director Stephanie Leutert and CAMPI Fellow Caitlyn Yates, have released the quarterly report on Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border. This November 2023 report provides an asylum processing update along the U.S.-Mexico border and focuses on the CBP One appointment system, the increasing use of waitlists to manage…
