LLM-Powered Drones Could Reverse the "Democratization of Warfare"
AI Governance Op-Eds
How context-dependent, agentic LLM-powered drones could reconcentrate military power — by Taeho Lee
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How Geopolitics Creates Conscripted Corporate Monsters
AI Governance Op-Eds
Examining how geopolitical competition turns AI companies into conscripted corporate monsters through cycles of state coercion and control — by Taeho Lee
Regional AI hyperspecialization
AI Governance Op-Eds
How smaller nations can stay strategically relevant by specializing in narrow, high-value AI capabilities — by Tomas Felipe Rubio Diaz and Hojun Jin.
Three federal liability frameworks
CASI Policy Hackathon Finalists
Strict liability, negligence-based duty of care, and an industry-funded compensation model for AI-enabled consumer fraud — by Dorian Clay and Jessica Wen.
AI-powered FRT and civil liberties
CASI Policy Hackathon Finalists
A Fourth Amendment + Rawlsian ethics framework for permissible use of AI-powered facial recognition at the border — by Taeho Lee.
AI voice-cloning fraud
CASI Policy Hackathon Finalists
Know Your Deployer (KYD), conditional cost-shifting, and a hybrid BSA–TILA model for agentic AI platforms — by Mateo Ruiz-Leal.
AICCLA
CASI Policy Hackathon Finalists
A proposed AI Creator Compensation and Licensing Act: blanket licensing, royalty tiers, federal registry, and safe harbor — by Jong Hyun Son and Soomin Seo.
AAAI-26
Member Reflections
Presenting AI safety research on jailbreaking and chain-of-thought patterns at AAAI-26