Technology standards have emerged as an area of geopolitical competition, conferring economic benefits and implicating values like privacy.
Guiding the evolution of AVs towards the future we want requires evaluating AVs with metrics that prioritize societally beneficial outcomes.
Widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles connected to 5G-enabled roadway infrastructure would make travel easier, cheaper, and safer.
As AI applications for public use have proliferated, there has been a large uptick in challenges associated with AI safety and fairness.
The Department of Defense is once again asking Congress for an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for certain unclassified military information including records on critical infrastructure and military tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). The latest proposal was included in the Pentagon’s draft of legislative language for the Fiscal Year 2022 defense authorization act (section 1002, […]
Expand the BRAIN Initiative by investing in a National Laboratory of Neurotechnology to understand how the brain works at a deeper level.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency model can unleash the full potential of our R&D community to solve critical societal challenges.
The Biden Administration should electrify the entire aviation ecosystem to eliminate airport lead emissions and create jobs.
The growing use of channels for finding and sharing information about people have made doxing increasingly widespread and dangerous.
Each year about 700 women die from pregnancy or birth complications in the U.S., the worst maternal mortality rate out of all industrialized countries. The need to improve U.S. rates of maternal mortality, as well as bolster research on the safety of prescription drugs for the health of pregnant and lactating women, were both raised […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Federation of American Scientists Acting President Dan Correa released the following statement on President Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget request to Congress: “With a global pandemic disrupting the world and highlighting both the strengths and liabilities of the United States’ economy and infrastructure, the Federation of American Scientists commends President […]
Federal programs that have recently funded new broadband infrastructure has gone to ISPs that offer expensive internet service.