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Blog
Responding to the Unknown: Simulating AI-Driven Crises
In April, Mariami Tkeshelashvili and Jennifer Tang hosted an AI crisis simulation exercise at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Emerging Technologies Symposium. The hands-on exercise asked participants to explore challenges at the intersection of AI and national security, and used IST’s research to set the stage before diving into immersive crisis scenarios.
AI
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cyber
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national security
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risk reduction
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risk-mitigation
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scenarios
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workshop
May 13, 2025
Blog
Q&A: The Strategic Potential of Cyber Insurance
In a new report, IST makes the case that cyber insurance has the strategic potential to be more than a passive player that uses annual renewal conversations around premiums to drive change. By becoming more active in their recommendations about cybersecurity products and services, cyber insurers can actually help their policyholders achieve better proactive, pre-incident cybersecurity.
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cyber resilience
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cyber risk
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cybersecurity
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risk-mitigation
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underwriting
April 29, 2025
Report
Enhancing Cyber Resilience through Insurance: Revisiting Anti-Bundling Regulation
In Enhancing Cyber Resilience Through Insurance, authors Sophia Mauro and Taylor Grossman make the case that cyber insurance has the strategic potential to go beyond consequence management, actually helping its insureds achieve better proactive, pre-incident cybersecurity.
cyber insurance
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cyber resilience
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cyber risk
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cyber threats
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insurance
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Ransomware
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risk-mitigation
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underwriting
April 28, 2025
Blog
Q&A: Navigating AI Compliance
In this month's newsletter, we sat down with Senior Associate for Artificial Intelligence Security Policy Mariami Tkeshelashvili to learn more about the research process behind IST's latest report "Navigating AI Compliance, Part 1: Tracing Failure Patterns Through History," their findings, and what's next for this effort.
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case study
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compliance failure
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GDPR
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governance
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risk-mitigation
December 17, 2024
One Pager
IST’s Efforts in an Age of AI: An Overview
IST began exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on national security and global stability in 2017. Since then, we have engaged with a diverse array of stakeholders across the AI ecosystem to produce risk mitigation strategies, useful tools and frameworks, and recommendations.
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national security
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recommendations
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risk-mitigation
September 19, 2024
Report
A Lifecycle Approach to AI Risk Reduction: Tackling the Risk of Malicious Use Amid Implications of Openness
A Lifecycle Approach to AI Risk Reduction introduces a novel framework for addressing the complex risks associated with AI, and applies this framework to the risk of malicious use.
AI lifecycle
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artificial intelligence
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LLMs
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malicious use
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risk-mitigation
June 17, 2024
Event
May 7, 2024 10:00 am
Building Trust & Safety into AI-Enabled Consumer Products and Services Roundtable
At a special event at the inaugural AI Expo for National Competitiveness, experts from across the technology ecosystem weighed in on Trust & Safety (T&S) opportunities, risks, and mitigation strategies in AI-enabled consumer products and services.
artificial intelligence
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risk-mitigation
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Trust & Safety
May 7, 2024
Report
How Does Access Impact Risk? Assessing AI Foundation Model Risk Along a Gradient of Access
Uninhibited access to powerful AI models and their components significantly increases the risk these models pose across a range of categories, as well as the ability for malicious actors to abuse AI capabilities and cause harm.
artificial inteligence
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bias
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capability overhang
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compliance failure
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foundation model
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human out of the loop
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LLMs
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malicious use
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risk-mitigation
December 13, 2023
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