Commentary
The acknowledgment has sparked fears of a new arms race with China and Russia.
Chris O’Meara
Research
Defense Against the AI Dark Arts: Threat Assessment and Coalition Defense
The United States must now start working very hard with allies to secure democratic advantage in the domain of frontier AI
Published on Dec 4, 2024
About the Authors
Philip Zelikow
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Former Carnegie President (2021-2026)
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar was previously the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies, and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt is the chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011.
Jason Matheny
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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