Always a great feeling to see the real thing for the first time.

Hearty congratulations to Dr. Zayed Hatem Zayed who passed his dissertation defense earlier today! The title is "Hiding in Plain Sight: How Egyptian Nonprofit Organizations Adapt to Shrinking Civic Space." 🥳

It's been so great speaking with aspiring and current PhDs recently about my new Georgetown University Press book with hounddog Foreign Policy Careers for PhDs: A Practical Guide to a World of Possibilities. Use code TGUF at checkout for 30% off: press.georgetown.edu/Book/Foreign-P…

Ozan Ahmet Çetin Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Happy to have a piece out with Ozan Ahmet Çetin on further developments in the integration of AI into war in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . We think through the risks of technological solutionism along with some of the technical hurdles still facing AI enabled systems.

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Congratulations to our newly minted PhDs (and their advisors): Susan Shepler @profptj Ian Reynolds Chayanit Poonyarat, Keith Darden, Mashal Shabbir & Boaz Atzili

Throughout the NATO week, Futures Lab at CSIS is publishing NATO futures series where scholars explore emerging challenges the alliance faces. Our piece w. Ian Reynolds on NATO’s challenges in AI integration: csis.org/analysis/calib… For the series 👇 csis.org/programs/inter…

"Faster and better decisionmaking is not a predetermined result of integrating AI into NATO operations." Learn how NATO should navigate challenges in interoperability, responsible use, and realistic expectations of AI in the #NATOFutures series: csis.org/analysis/calib…

Our argument piece is out. We argue that the hype and alarmism around LLMs miss the key point: LLMs are what we make of them.

NEW: A new digital series from the CSIS Defense and Security Department Futures Lab and Scale AI explores how large language models approach critical foreign policy decision-making scenarios. Explore the LLM bias dashboard here: csis.org/programs/futur…

In collaboration with CSIS, we’ve developed the Critical Foreign Policy Decision (CFPD) Benchmark—a new way to assess LLMs based on their national security and foreign policy decision-making tendencies scale.com/blog/scale-csi…

New research has found key limits in the ability of AI to analyze fundamental questions about great-power competition and crisis management looming over strategy and statecraft in the 21st century. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/04/ai-…

Very happy to have my article exploring the intellectual history of speed, and its connections to AI enabled decision-making, out in Millennium Journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

📝 This new article from Vol. 53, Issue 2 by Ian Reynolds interrogates the link between speed and warfare in American military thought. Read "Speed and War in US Military Thought: Mapping the Conditions for AI–Enabled Decision-Making" below ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Our Lab at CSIS focuses on AI integrated decision-making research in security policy. See some of our research findings and my comments regarding what AI can do and what it cannot at The Economist: economist.com/science-and-te…

"AI models have built-in biases that factor into their decision-making. These biases should be mitigated before integrating them into foreign policy processes," write CSIS Futures Lab experts. Read more: cs.is/4imJ95I

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NEW: CSIS Futures Lab outlines how civil society can play a critical role in evaluating and shaping the deployment of AI agents in high stakes decisionmaking. Read more: csis.org/analysis/why-t…