Current export controls are the worst of both worlds: Key technology leaks to China, while controls weaken U.S. firms’ incentive to invest.

Future AI risks will be harder to address ad hoc.

In their own words, researchers describe how anti-hacking laws push them to abandon work, stockpile flaws, or quit the field entirely.

A review of Katrina Manson, “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare” (Norton, 2026).

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

Before locking in new restrictions on AI models, policymakers should ask how much distillation actually contributes to the threat.

AI in the near term may drive cybersecurity back to its roots, when widespread vulnerabilities, not deceptive intrusions, drove incidents.