What exactly does “all lawful use” of AI mean? No one knows.
“Lawful” is a legal floor that will look increasingly shaky as AI capabilities advance. It doesn’t answer whether we have adequate civil liberties guardrails or technical safety standards in place.
Our statement: fas.org/publication/...
Bootcamp is back, baby. Apply today 👉 fas.org/osint-bootcamp/
Marco reports another Minuteman III ICBM test launch planned for early next month.
USAF is trying to replace Minuteman with Sentinel but is over budget and behind schedule. Mil said Minuteman couldn’t be life-extended but now has to operate it for another 15 years. fas.org/publication/...
🚨 Attache ta tuque!
@scientistsorg.bsky.social is hosting our 2nd Open Source Nuclear Analysis Bootcamp in partnership with @stanleycenter.org in Montréal on June 21-26!
Come hang out and learn:
• Geolocation
• Missiles
• FOIA
• Imagery analysis
• Poutine 🍟
• Bagels 🥯
C'est le fun! 👇
Sound like fun? Apply by March 15 at the link below. Cohosted with our friends at @stanleycenter.org
fas.org/osint-bootcamp
At this in-person, interactive boot camp, you will work directly with FAS Nuke Team members and external experts to develop skills in:
- The basics, ethics, and communication of open-source analysis
- Nuclear secrecy and transparency
- Geolocation and satellite imagery analysis
- More!
📣ATTENTION NUKE NERDS: Our one-week, intensive OSINT bootcamp to teach a new generation of open-source nuke investigators IS BACK. And this time, we’re going to Montreal. If you’re an early- to mid-career nuclear weapons analyst, this bootcamp is calling for you.
Today we’re thrilled to launch the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI): a new hub to reimagine how government can better serve Americans.
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I wrote an explainer that's meant to guide not only what to know now about the new Schedule P/C (Schedule F) rule, but more importantly, what to ask OPM and agencies throughout implementation fas.org/publication/...
“We need not lose faith in the administrative state itself; we would do better to view it as having functioned with its hands tied tighter and tighter. But we are now starting, particularly in the climate and energy space, to hit real limits.” At @scientistsorg.bsky.social fas.org/publication/...
Want to join us in charting paths for a renewed administrative state, a more responsive government, and ambitious climate policy that lasts? Learn more about what we’re up to and how to get involved ⤵️
fas.org/publication/...
We’re pleased to welcome @climategroup.bsky.social, @iclei-usa.bsky.social and @eliorg.bsky.social as core partners in this initial work.
So we’re launching CRI with a focus on climate: a space where there’s an increasingly evident mismatch between the functions the government needs to provide and the tools it has to deliver.
Solving today’s problems with yesterday’s strategies isn’t working… and it’s eroding faith in government. CRI is designed to bring that faith back.
We want to restore gov’s capacity to achieve big, ambitious goals while making life better, safer, and cheaper for Americans.
Today we’re thrilled to launch the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI): a new hub to reimagine how government can better serve Americans.
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The Environmental Protection Agency claims that the endangerment finding led to ‘costly burdens’ on American families and businesses, when in reality it’s the cost of failing to regulate climate pollution that will hit people the hardest.
Revoking the endangerment finding would shove science aside in favor of special interests – at the expense of American health and wellbeing.
Read our full statement ➡️ fas.org/publication/...
this too is science policy
we said it once we'll say it again: 👀
"FAS [ @scientistsorg.bsky.social ] is starting the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity, which the group says will create "high-trust environments to brainstorm and refine the big ideas that will breathe new life into government" while building a "network of networks" to help implement those ideas."
In 2024, 1 in 3 households had to forgo food or medicine to keep the lights on, and 20M are in debt to their utility companies.
Absent policy change, prices will continue to increase.
States can create more clean energy supply – and fast. Here's how.
statesforum.substack.com/p/the-year-o...
Learn more and apply 👉 fas.org/initiative/i...
Winning teams will get free access to INRIX's APIs for up to a year – basically priceless.
And applying is easy-peasy.
With our friends at @INRIX, we're looking for innovative research and local government collaborators to put the INRIX API to good use.
And it's a lot of data.
University of Alabama looked at transportation deserts to get to medical appointments in rural communities. Fresno researched GenAI applications and how they compare in transit efficiency recommendations.
Your university can do something like this too🧵
@wired.com covers Matt Korda and Igor Morić's Inspections without Inspectors. Full report linked below. www.wired.com/story/satell...
Trust between nuclear armed states (and those that want to be) is at an all-time low. On-site inspectors are increasingly unrealistic, but something has to take their place.
One idea: cooperative technical means focusing on remote investigations with both expert- and algorithmic-powered analysis.
Thanks for having @elianajjohns.bsky.social on!
Eliana and the rest of the Nuclear Information Project team are hard at work shining a light on nuclear secrecy and, we will continue publishing reliable and publicly-available data on nuclear weapons arsenals.
