Federation of American Scientists🔬

AI is moving fast, and so are the risks. Together with @scientistsorg, we’re convening leaders across industry, government, academia, and philanthropy for the AI and Global Risk Summit. We'll dig into what’s next at the intersection of AI x Global Catastrophic Risk - and what to do about it. 📅 May 20 📍 Washington, D.C. 🔗 Non-invitation spots are limited. Register your interest now at the link in the replies below ⬇️

Over the past few months, the Trump administration has been laying the foundation to expand the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) for fossil fuel infrastructure. New from us: the DPA can do a lot of things, but where's the money coming from? fas.org/publication/tr…

Federal data touch every corner of American lives. When data disappears, "we might not know or be able to connect the dots for why our lives are getting harder – but our lives will get harder," says FAS Director of Federal Data Policy Denice Ross theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Gil on the Hill is back (Gil is back on the Hill...?), this time with his take on even more deep cuts for science R&D, the firing of the entire National Science Board, and states picking up the S&T policy slack. 🔗fas.org/publication/gi…

From FAS CEO @CorreaDan, on the dismissal of the National Science Board: "No experiment ever succeeds untended and unwatched."

If AI companies want to use scientific collections to train their models, then they have a duty to contribute to the sustainability of said collections. Here's how collections admins and AI companies can take this from idea to action ⤵️ fas.org/publication/su…

Happy Earth Day, from us to you. And also to the earth. Love you mom.

The story goes like this: emissions trading worked brilliantly for acid rain in the 1990s, let’s do it for carbon. Surely effectively pricing and trading carbon emissions is key to driving a clean-technology transition? Not quite. fas.org/publication/be…

Loren DeJonge Schulman and Hannah Safford on rethinking climate regulation, plus launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity volts.wtf/p/rethinking-c…

Arjun Krishnaswami on a new playbook states can steal from to make electricity affordable heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…

Smart policy, no reading required 🎧 If your ears are aching to hear how we turn policy ideas into real world impact, these recent podcast features deserve a spot on your weekend rotation (and no, we won't tell anyone if you listen at 2x speed) ⤵️

i made the former U.S. chief data scientist tell me about bat data for #BatAppreciationDay (a day we should celebrate every day tbh) bats are not just for gotham; they provide billions of dollars in ecosystem services! and we don't even pay em 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇enjoy🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

We are hiring a Senior Advisor for Metascience to expand our agenda to reimagine how federal research institutions function. This is an area ripe for a lot more policy entrepreneurship. Looking for a doer! fas.org/career/senior-…

Everyone: tax returns should be easier to file in America 2021 U.S. Digital Service: bet🫡 Here's the story of the rise and fall of IRS Direct File fas.org/publication/en…

Great launch training exercise image at the training site near Dalian of the now retired DF-3A liquid-fuel MRBM. The brigade then upgraded to DF-21A, and later to DF-26. fas.org/publication/de…

We take on the sacred cows of digital government delivery, and what we can win if we put them out to pasture. fas.org/publication/sa…

After the President's Budget Request dropped earlier this month, our team analyzed it for its implications for U.S. international engagement and collaboration on critical science and technology priorities. Here's what you need to know. fas.org/publication/fy…

NNSA has changed nuke stockpile stewardship program from focus on life-extension of existing warheads to production of significantly altered or new warheads that require production of new plutonium pits. One of the effects of growing strategic competition between big nuke powers.

"Presidential sole authority, upheld by its weapons, is a precarious foundation upon which we rest our security. We are thus forced to either trust that the system can hold forever or else dismantle the system entirely, because nothing can repair the broken world that would result from nuclear use — accidental, miscalculated, or otherwise."