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The assumption that we can prevent AI from being used for harmful biological research rests on a flawed premise: that we can control access to both the AI models and the underlying biological data.
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Chemicals, Metals, Mining, and the Business of American Materials The American materials sector sits at a pivotal juncture. The industry that furnishes the raw inputs for everything from microchips to skyscrapers is now being reshaped by the same technology it helps enable. Artificial intelligence is moving from isolated pilots to…
By David Bray, PhD I am going to be frank: I almost opted to title this article “Dear Silicon Valley AI Companies: Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are” however I opted not to do this because a good Stoic views the world as opportunities to find good and improve the things that they can…
The American energy sector sits at a crossroads. The industry that powers the world’s largest economy is now being reshaped by the technology it helped make possible. Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to production systems across oil and gas exploration, power generation, grid management, and renewable energy operations. The companies that figure out…
Why Patching Vulnerabilities Is No Longer Enough: The Case for Patterns-of-Life Cybersecurity By David A. Bray, PhD and Jeff Frazier The cybersecurity challenges posed by AI-empowered adversaries and increasingly sophisticated multi-stage attacks are not going to disappear. And while Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing represent remarkable advances in AI-driven vulnerability discovery, relying solely on…
The financial sector’s AI acceleration story is ultimately about more than banking, markets, or digital payments. It is about the emergence of a new operational architecture for global economic coordination.
There is little doubt that China has matured into a full-spectrum cyber power. A recent analysis concludes that across sophistication, scale, stealth, and strategy, China should be regarded as a peer competitor.
Between 2021 and 2025, healthcare, cybersecurity, and the financial sector became live operational laboratories for accelerating artificial intelligence. What emerged is a new operational environment.
Manufacturing has always run on precision, repetition, and scale. Those same qualities make it a natural fit for artificial intelligence. AI has always been discussed in manufacturing, but the conversation has shifted. Increasingly it is about speed and diffusion of AI in service to outcomes in manufacturing. The question now is how fast manufacturing firms…
We are seeing key insights that boards and CEOs need to internalize: the shift to probabilistic agents running at machine speed, humans optimizing solely for efficiency, and autonomous systems operating without human oversight.
Our methodology for assessing organizational use of AI is the AI Acceleration Quotient. This post describes how to do repeatable standard assessments of AI using the same professional methodologies we use at OODA.
Accelerationism is a system condition in which technological, geopolitical, economic, and social forces collide faster than institutions can adapt. This geopolitical conflict analysis is now visible in real time through the unfolding Iran conflict.
A recent OODA Network survey on Compounding Accelerations reflects a network actively grappling with the convergence of multiple high-velocity forces and the growing realization that risk is no longer linear, isolated, or slow-moving.
The recent U.S.-Iran conflict has proven that cyberspace is not always a supporting domain, but one that could be decisive for victory.
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