Securing a positive future in a world with powerful AI
The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a nonpartisan think tank that produces policy research to address the implications of AI, from today’s most advanced models to potential AGI and superintelligence. Our work equips policymakers and industry leaders to protect innovation while navigating high-magnitude risks and opportunities at the intersection of AI, national security, and geopolitics.
Featured research
Location Verification for AI Chips introduces a design for a mechanism that can work on existing chips and verify their location to help enforce export control agreements, while being privacy preserving and reasonably tamper-proof.
Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents examines the question: what happens when AI systems can plan, execute, and sustain sophisticated cyber operations entirely on their own?
What we do
Advanced AI systems pose both immense opportunities and complex challenges. IAPS addresses these with practical policy solutions at the intersection of AI policy and national security.
Our work involves:
Conducting forward-looking policy research in areas including preparedness, information and supply chain security, and international coordination needed to navigate strategic competition with adversaries who may misuse AI.
Cultivating policy talent — IAPS is forging a community of researchers and practitioners from across many policy areas and backgrounds to meet this critical moment.
Providing relevant and timely insights to stakeholders across Congress, the executive branch, industry, academia, and civil society.
Across all our work, intellectual independence is a core value. Read more about our funding and intellectual independence policy here.
Our focus areas
Frontier Security
We identify concrete interventions to address AI-related threats to national defense and security and protect innovation. Our current focus areas include:
Cyber and autonomy: addressing the implications of autonomous systems for the cyber offense-defense balance
R&D for AI security and assurance: identifying promising technologies to ensure AI robustness in high-stakes applications
Preparedness: identifying measures that ensure a timely response to AI-powered threats to national security and public safety
Compute Policy
We explore novel interventions and strategic considerations for managing access to massive AI compute resources. Current focus areas include:
Technical mechanisms for enforcement of U.S. export controls
Hardware-enabled mechanisms
Information and supply chain security
International Strategy
We study trends in international coordination and competition around advanced AI. Current focus areas include:
US-China competition on AI development and its implications for global stability
Global AI state capacity, especially institutional developments such as AI Safety Institutes and other agencies, and their implications on the international landscape