I was the first White House Special Advisor for AI. My friend Tantum Collins was Director for Technology and National Security, joining government after five years at Google DeepMind. Our jobs were to help make AI safe and ensure that democracies led the way in inventing and using it well. Today, I’m a professor at Johns Hopkins and an advisor to Anthropic and others, and Tantum is the CEO of Inherent. Long before we served in government, we thought that humanity was on track to create AI systems that outperform humans at virtually every cognitive task. This was once a fringe hypothesis. It now seems inevitable. THE BITTER STRUGGLE is our new book about what’s happened, what’s coming, and what’s at stake. From nanometer-scale chips to gigawatt data centers, we will show you why AI is so powerful, and why its progress will accelerate from here in ways that feel like science fiction. We will take you into the Oval Office with President Biden, the Situation Room with the Cabinet, and the Roosevelt Room with leading CEOs — and we will examine what has happened under President Trump. The decisions made in these rooms, and in Silicon Valley, will determine which nations gain a decisive lead in AI. Whoever wields that technology will gain a power unlike any in history. The next few years may decide the next few decades. But, most of all, together we will confront AI’s hardest questions. What is the proper relationship between the companies inventing the technology, the government, and the public? How can we make sure AI is safe and trustworthy? How do democracies win without losing our values? And how can humanity figure all of this out when we are so quickly running out of time? That question is why we wrote this book — and why we believe the answers are too important to only be debated in closed rooms, including the ones we once sat in. We are so excited to finally share our work with you. The book is available for pre-order now and out November 10th from Crown. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…

The morning after the blue tsunami, I talked with @BuchananBen, the White House Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence under President Biden, about voters’ AI concerns, export controls, and American leadership in 2028. A quick look at some of his takes and the full piece below.

I led AI policy in the Biden administration, and my colleague @tantumscollins was Director for Technology on the National Security Council. Our book on AI and national security -- THE BITTER STRUGGLE -- comes out in 11 days. @tylercowen said it “will become the standard source” on the history of the China chip bans and Biden-era AI policy. @crmiller1 said it is “essential reading for understanding how AI will impact geopolitics and how the great powers are shaping AI.” We wrote this book because the decisions shaping AI -- and the future for all of us -- are too important to only be debated behind closed doors. If you're planning on reading it, pre-ordering is one of the best ways to help us bring this conversation to a broader audience. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…

Today I’m launching the Center for Technology & Statecraft (CTS), an initiative inspired by the lessons I learned first as a policy researcher and later in the White House. I'm an optimist about technology. Institutions adapt to disruptions — whether the industrial revolution, computing, the internet — through competition, self-correction, and iteration, and we mostly figure it out in the long run. But we've never had to adapt to a technology that is both this transformative and developing this fast. AI capabilities continue to scale rapidly with no sign of slowing, and it's a full-time job just to keep up with model releases. I worry policy will stay reactive right up until we face immense disruptions — including basic challenges to human agency and relevance in a world of powerful AI. Even still, I believe policy can steer this transition, but only with foresight and the right information. CTS aims to provide just that. Our two initial policy focus areas: 1) How policy can shape virtual and physical automation over the next decade as we reimagine the social contract in light of advanced AI. 2) How to manage long-term strategic US-China AI competition while ensuring stability. These focus areas will build on a deep model of the AI value chain, from chipmaking tools, to the compute, algorithms, and data that make AI, to the tokens, agents and robots that affect the world. For more on our worldview and research philosophy, read techstatecraft.org/launch. I’ve seen firsthand how technical, forward-looking research can inform policy if it’s ready for the policy window. After a decade as an IP and tech lawyer, I joined a think tank, CSET, in 2019 to study AI chips, their supply chains, and AI policy. This was three years before ChatGPT, so these weren't seen as urgent topics at the time. Soon after, AI quickly became an increasingly salient policy issue. From 2021–2025 I served in the White House NSC and the Commerce Department and put new policy ideas into practice (alongside many brilliant colleagues). One goal of CTS is to scale this kind of experience to a whole team: @KonstantinPilz @nchlsbrwn @amelia__michael @mary_clare_m already bring a wealth of technical and policy expertise and we’ll continue to grow to tackle an ambitious research agenda. We're thrilled to be supported by and affiliated with @IFP, and grateful to the advisors and colleagues who helped get CTS off the ground, including @ohlennart, @fiiiiiist, @AlecStapp, and @calebwatney. Our first major reports will launch soon. You can follow us at @techstatecraft.

#Patriots play-action schemes on the goal-line have been really effective all camp. Maye with TDs to Brown (slant) and Hollins (cross). Maye also hit Henry on a nice chip-and-release play for a TD.

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence | The White House whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…

Biden-Harris Administration Launches Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge to Protect America’s Critical Software | The White House whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI | The White House whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…

TODAY is the pub date for THE NEW FIRE: WAR, PEACE, AND DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF AI. The product of years of work with the great @Andrew_Imbrie, the book explores AI, its role in geopolitics, and democracies can master it. Technology need not favor tyranny. 🧵and link below