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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.
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workshop
May 13, 2025
AAR
Social Media Storms and Early Warning Systems: A Deep Dive and Speed Scenarios Workshop
In 2018, IST, the Preventative Defense Project at Stanford University, Nautilus Institute, and N2 Collaborative hosted a workshop on social media storms and early warning systems.
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social media
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threat assessment
January 8, 2019
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