Sam Winter-Levy is a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on emerging technology and national security. Before joining Carnegie, he was a Ph.D. candidate in politics at Princeton University and a Peace Scholar Fellow at the US Institute of Peace, and he has worked as a staff editor at Foreign Affairs and a reporter at The Economist.
He has published academic research in the Journal of Politics, received Princeton’s George Kateb Preceptor Award for teaching, and written for publications including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, Lawfare, War on the Rocks, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the London Review of Books, and Scientific American, among others. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford and was the Michael Von Clemm Fellow at Harvard in 2014-15
As cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology proliferates worldwide, U.S. policymakers will need to figure out how to leverage first-mover advantages and reconcile national security pressures with economic constraints.
To compete with China, the United States must walk a tightrope in the Gulf.
Unit X is a readable and insightful, if at times hyperbolic, account of how cutting-edge commercial innovation is shaping warfare and how U.S. bureaucracies have struggled—and, more rarely, succeeded—in their efforts to keep up.
