As AI applications are increasingly integrated into nuclear weapons systems and related subsystems—including early warning, decision support, intelligence and predictive analysis, and other military platforms—nuclear policy professionals face a growing challenge: policy debates are accelerating faster than practitioners’ direct exposure to how modern AI tools and systems are actually built, tested, and deployed.
Funded through a philanthropic grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Andrew Carnegie AI–Nuclear Policy Accelerator is designed to close this gap by providing mid-career professionals in the national security space with hands-on technical literacy and applied engagement. The Accelerator will train and support nuclear policy practitioners drawn from government, international organizations, the military, think tanks, and academia.
“Discussions about the convergence of AI and nuclear weapons systems are often framed at a very high level, without sufficient grounding in how these technologies function in practice. This program is designed to give nuclear policy practitioners direct exposure to AI tools and to the people building them—so that judgments about risks and opportunities are informed by how these systems actually behave in the real world, not how we imagine them to."
