"Much of the security progress over the past decade has been at large-scale, finding, and patching vulnerabilities in widely used applications or defending networks of millions of machines containing high-value data."

New technologies come with unintended consequences. It is increasingly clear that the breakneck pace of technological development in the 21st century poses new digital threats to all forms of democracy.

This paper introduces the CATALINK system. CATALINK would build on the “hotline” model of previous generations and rely on internationally driven open-source technologies to maximize user integrity and trust.

As the 21st-century geopolitical balance shifts in uncertain ways, there is an increasing eagerness to deploy AI tech into both the physical and digital battlefields to gain both tactical and strategic advantage over adversaries.