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Global Risk
Press release
Federation of American Scientists, Future of Life Institute Present Converging Risks Report, AI Impact Awards at Gala

FAS and FLI partnered to build a series of convenings and reports across the intersections of artificial intelligence (AI) with biosecurity, cybersecurity, nuclear command and control, military integration, and frontier AI governance. This project brought together leaders across these areas and created a space that was rigorous, transpartisan, and solutions-oriented to approach how we should think about how AI is rapidly changing global risks.

05.20.26 | 9 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Closing the Strategic Capital Gap: The Case for Modernizing the Export-Import Bank

Investment should instead be directed at sectors where American technology and innovation exist but the infrastructure to commercialize them domestically does not—and where the national security case is clear.

05.20.26 | 3 min read
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Clean Energy
Blog
States Are Plugging into Experimental Electricity Policy to Find Cost-Saving Success

To tune into the action on the ground, we convened practitioners, state and local officials, advocates, and policy experts to discuss what it will actually take to deploy clean energy faster, modernize electricity systems, and lower costs for households.

05.13.26 | 5 min read
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Global Risk
Report
Tracking Hyperscale AI Data Center Growth with Satellite Imagery

From grassroots community impacts to global geopolitical dynamics, understanding developing data center capacities is emerging as a critical analytical challenge.

05.12.26 | 32 min read
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Clean Energy
Blog
Trump’s DPA Play: Turning Energy Infrastructure Into a National Defense Priority

Over the past few months, the Trump administration has been laying the foundation to expand the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) for energy infrastructure and supply chains.

05.07.26 | 5 min read
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Government Capacity
Blog
Successful Pooled Hiring Starts With Diving the Deep End

Get it right, and pooled hiring becomes a model for how the federal government decides what to do together and what to do apart. That’s a bigger prize than faster hiring. It’s a more functional government.

05.07.26 | 17 min read
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Emerging Technology
Report
Face Recognition Performance, Bias, and the Limits of Technical Fixes

As of March 2026, there were at least nine documented U.S. wrongful arrests tied to face recognition misidentification. Errors like these are as much human as machine.

05.06.26 | 45 min read
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Government Capacity
Blog
Gil on the Hill: More Budget, More Problems 

No one will be surprised if we end up with a continuing resolution to push our shutdown deadline out past the midterms, so the real question is what else will they get done this summer?

04.30.26 | 3 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Public Participation IS the Ingenuity We Need

Rebuilding public participation starts with something simple — treating the public not as a problem to manage, but as a source of ingenuity government cannot function without.

04.29.26 | 33 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Strengthening the Federal Cycle of Learning and Adaptation by Closing the Loops

If the government wants a system of learning and adaptation that improves results in real time, it has to treat translation, utilization, and adaptation as core functions of governance rather than as afterthoughts.

04.27.26 | 10 min read
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Government Capacity
day one project
Policy Memo
Why Interagency Policy Coordination Efforts Frequently Fail (And How To Fix Them)

Coordination among federal science agencies is essential to ensure government-wide alignment on R&D investment priorities. However, the federal R&D enterprise suffers from egregious siloization.  

04.24.26 | 17 min read
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Environment
Policy Memo
Report
A Plan for Revitalizing the U.S. Auto Industry

Don’t like the Chinese-backed EVs that are undercutting your market? Start with a well-designed statute to strengthen market oversight and competition while also providing American companies with support.

04.23.26 | 13 min read
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