🎙️ New BRSL podcast episode! This week on the BRSL Weekly Brief we're diving into three separate, yet deeply interconnected, topics: the ongoing Iran war, European pushes for rearmament, and worldwide semiconductor chip shortages.

Read the full discussion: tnsr.org/roundtable/n... #DefensePolicy #PrecisionStrike #StrategicStudies @berkeleyrisk.bsky.social

Many thanks to Robin Geiß of @unidir.org for joining BRSL's Professor Andrew Reddie yesterday at the @goldmanschool.bsky.social for an illuminating talk on emerging technology, security, society, and how Dr. Geiß charts UNIDIR's strategic direction.

🚨 Happening tomorrow! Sign up below for the BRSL Webinar: Algorithmic Warfare in Iran and Beyond: What Possibilities Exist for Governance? Tomorrow, April 1, 10am-11am PT on Zoom. berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @goldmanschool.bsky.social

🎙️ New BRSL Podcast This week on your BRSL Weekly Brief, Professor Andrew W. Reddie answers questions about Super Micro and the alleged scheme by three employees, including the company’s co-founder, to send NVIDIA microchips to China in violation of U.S. export laws.

🚨 New BRSL Brisk Assessment! In this new publication, BRSL Executive Director Leah Walker makes a case for why leading research institutions, like UC Berkeley, are a natural home for national security research, like the Lab's. @goldmanschool.bsky.social

🚨New episode out on YouTube!🚨 Jon is joined by artificial intelligence & defense experts Paul Scharre and @sarahshoker.bsky.social to discuss ⬇️: >> AI + Military = ? >> Anthropic & Open AI >> AI Personalities >> Pizza & Tostadas youtube.com/watch?v=NAWjXmsNiPU&feature=youtu.be

Safely developing AI will require cooperation on a global scale. @sarahshoker.bsky.social offers a hopeful path forward.

ICYMI: 🔊 We've posted another episode of our weekly news podcast, the BRSL Weekly Brief. This week's episode focuses on the battle between AI companies and the Pentagon surrounding autonomous weapons, the risks they pose, and how embedded they are in current operations already.

As OpenAI and Anthropic’s public reputations shift around their level of cooperation with the Pentagon, Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President at the Center for a New American Security, and @sarahshoker.bsky.social, Senior Research Scholar at Berkeley, untangle the effects of their respective moves.

Is Congress so out of their depth that they simply can’t handle regulating AI? @sarahshoker.bsky.social thinks there is a lot of room for tech professionals to help educate them and Paul Scharre says hearings would be a good start.

The risks of artificial intelligence run amok seem apparent to many observers, Jon wonders if those risks are being considered by those on the inside of these companies. @sarahshoker.bsky.social

AI models can be trained to have different personalities. What happens when those models are used by the military? Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President at the Center for a New American Security, and @sarahshoker.bsky.social, Senior Research Scholar at Berkeley join Jon to discuss. New pod out now!

BRSL Senior Research Scholar Sarah Shoker on the Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, listen below! @goldmanschool.bsky.social

🚨Ever wanted to know how hypersonic missiles work? Now you can! Check out our new “Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Simulator,” developed by BRSL Senior Research Scholar Dr. Cameron Tracy in partnership with Justin Ly, Anita Ding, and MIT’s Dr. David Wright: brsl.berkeley.edu/hypersonic-g...

Happening Monday: BRSL Faculty Dir. Prof. Andrew W. Reddie and Senior Research Scholar Sarah Shoker will be featured in a panel covering the Anthropic-DOW standoff and the future of autonomous weapons at the Pentagon. 🗓️ March 9th, 1-2pm @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social

BRSL has launched a new current events podcast -- the BRSL Weekly Brief. This week, BRSL Faculty Dir. Prof. Andrew Reddie answers questions about the U.S./Israel/Iran war. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. rss.buzzsprout.com/2601355.rss @goldmanschool.bsky.social

🔈 BRSL Faculty Dir. Andrew Reddie on @kcbsradio.bsky.social yesterday, discussing Iran: www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

🗓️ BRSL has a new lineup of research seminars this spring semester! Find the full list and sign up on our website, here: brsl.berkeley.edu/all-events/ @goldmanschool.bsky.social

BRSL at @goldmanschool.bsky.social & @councilonstrategicrisks.org are delighted to announce the AIxNuclear #Research #Fellowship to develop a pipeline of experts fluent in nuclear and AI governance & security issues, w/ support from Longview Philanthropy. Read more: brsl.berkeley.edu/aixnuclearpr...

✅New: BRSL and Future of Life Institute launch project to map trajectories of Chinese and U.S. AI development and escalation risks. Read more here: brsl.berkeley.edu/future-of-li...

Next Monday, October 27, UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab will be hosting MTA Senior Researcher Dr. Hui Zhang for a discussion on his forthcoming book "The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing" brsl.berkeley.edu/beyond-the-b...

BRSL Research Seminar: reporting on Dr. Hui Zhang's new book, "The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing," on China’s nuclear weapons development from 1955 to 1996. 📅 Register: In person: luma.com/cjhxekzt Virtual: luma.com/t1y5gd06

New BRSL Publication on cybercrime: how AI is making common forms of cybercrime faster, cheaper, and easier to execute, lowering the barrier to entry for cybercriminals, and increasing the number of attacks. Read the full piece here: brsl.berkeley.edu/cybercrime-g... @goldmanschool.bsky.social