Focus Areas & Projects

Focus Areas

Our projects and other work generally fall within four interrelated focus areas: Cognitive Security in the Age of AI; Privacy, Data Governance, & Trust; Technology, National Security, and the Future of Competition and Conflict; and Technology and the Future of Law Enforcement.

Cognitive Security in the Age of AI

The introduction of AI is exacerbating existing technical and structural vulnerabilities inherent in the modern, digital information environment ...

Privacy, Data Governance, and Trust

New technologies generate ever-increasing volumes of personal data that deliver significant societal benefits. At the same time, the ubiquity of personal data, when combined with powerful analytic capabilities ...

Technology, National Security, and the Future of Competition and Conflict

The proliferation and democratization of emerging technologies is rapidly transforming the landscape of interstate competition and conflict and undermining the traditional legal monopoly States hold ...

Technology and the Future of Law Enforcement

Technological innovation has significantly expanded the operational capacities of modern law enforcement. Tools such as real-time data analytics, geolocation, advanced surveillance systems ...

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Ongoing Projects

Past Projects

Understanding and Demystifying the Fight Against Child Sexual Exploitation The goal of this project is to break the logjam and refocus the debate in a way that accommodates the multiple, competing interests. It acknowledges, yet sidesteps, the ongoing debate about whether and to what extent the move to default encryption is a net positive or net negative. Rather, it takes the shift as a given reality—and seeks to identify cooperative approaches to combating on-line child sexual exploitation that account for that reality.

National Security and AI Over the coming year, this project will produce and prioritize budget and acquisition actions and guidance, create a risk-assessment framework, and recommend congressional oversight options that will support the Intelligence Community in taking full advantage of artificial intelligence and other new technologies for the benefit of the nation. As necessary, we will consider questions related to leadership, talent, bureaucracy, culture, private sector engagement, and ethics, among other topics.?????

Addressing Harmful Content Online What speech should be permitted, flagged, or taken down? Should these companies be held to account for their decisions? Is Facebook's new Oversight Board the answer? Join us for a discussion on the role of these powerful gatekeepers in regulating political speech in our democracy.

Free Speech Project The Free Speech Project is a collaborative effort between TLS and Slate Future Tense examining the many ongoing debates about free speech (and its boundaries) in a series of live events and articles published on Slate over the course of the year.

Cyber 9/12 Strategy Competition The Cyber 9/12 Challenge is designed to educate the next generation of foreign policy and global security leaders in the dynamics of cyber statecraft.

Chinese-Owned Technology Platforms Operating in the United States The report sets forth a framework for understanding the various threats posed by Chinese-owned technology platforms operating in the United States (e.g. TikTok), and for assessing the various costs and benefits of proposed responses to these threats.

Power, Policing and Tech The Technology, Law & Security (TLS) Program, in partnership with the Criminal Justice Practice & Policy Institute (CJPPI) at the American University Washington College of Law (WCL) and the Journal of National Security Law and Policy (JNSLP) at Ge

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