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Courtney Manning
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Director of AI Imperative 2030 at American Security Project. Defense, AI and China, Military Readiness, Intelligence. Views are my own.
Why do #AI #startups rush to market without thorough safety plans and mitigations for hypothetical worst-case scenarios posed by think tanks? Money, duh.

But reason #2: AI safety discourse often lacks precision. Potential catastrophic risks matter, but near-term demonstrable threats matter more.
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
How ironic is it that, while posting about our recent report on #CCP influence in American AI LLM models, my @officialgrammarly.bsky.social extension recommends I use the CCP-preferred term for the #TiananmenSquareMassacre
July 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Introducing AI Arms Race, a quarterly newsletter on the ends, ways, and means of the geostrategic war over critical technologies. The inaugural edition asks, "Why is AI a national security imperative?"

Read here: mailchi.mp/americansecu...
May 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This legitimately made me stop and chuckle while writing an extremely dense AI export control report. China Brief guests keeping it real like always. #CHIPS #AI #NatSec @jordanschneider.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 6:43 PM