Cornell Brooks School
Building policy for a new age.
Unlocking the potential of AI and Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies with robust policies. Our experts collaborate globally with policymakers and practitioners.
Critical Infrastructure
Resilient policy frameworks for the digital and physical systems that underpin national security.
- Semiconductor Supply Chain Security
- Cyber Test Range
- Data Centers
Drones and Robotics
The future of military drone technologies across air, land, and sea, and the policy needed to meet them.
- Full Spectrum Drone Warfare
AI Governance and Defense
How algorithmic systems reshape the conduct and governance of modern defence and security.
- Algorithmic Warfare Research Lab
- AI Governance
- Tech Talk
Cryptocurrencies
How citizens of authoritarian states secure financial freedom, and how Bitcoin and stablecoins are used worldwide.
- Financial Freedom
Geopolitics and Technology
Strategic frameworks for the technological competition that defines modern great power rivalry.
- Strategic Simulations
- Arctic Security
Space Security
The security and governance of space systems as commercial actors become operational gatekeepers.
- Space Cybersecurity
- Commercial Space and Armed Conflict
Twelve months of consolidation and growth. The team grew from 33 fellows to 42, competitive research funding reached $4.5 million across nine grants, and the institute hosted 21 events and delivered 175 policy and press briefings.
The report covers the research hubs, funding and grants, research and policy impact, events, course offerings, and every fellow.
- 42
- Fellows, up from 33
- $4.5M
- Research funding, up 246%
- 21
- Events hosted
- 175
- Policy and press briefings
At the Bastille, a Generation Facing AI Alone
As France invests in becoming an AI leader, its young people face job insecurity and worry about AI’s effects on their ability to think. Their protests ask whether government will help them meet those challenges.
AI Agents and the Principal-Agent Problem
While AI agents themselves are new, many of the problems they present are not. As long as people delegate some tasks to others, they will have to contend with what social scientists call the principal-agent problem.
Shipping victory to the enemy: F-35 parts and the supply chain problem
F-35 components were misrouted to Hong Kong and seized by China. Officials call the parts low risk, but the greater warning is about the arms transfer network that carried them.
We cannot safely unlock the potential of AI and other emerging technologies without developing well-researched, responsible policies.