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Center for a New American Security — Technological Risks and National Security

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  • Category: Longtermism
  • Organization Name: Center for a New American Security
  • Amount: $260,000

  • Award Date: August 2017

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    Grant investigator: Helen Toner

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. CNAS staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.

    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $260,000 to the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) to support outreach by Richard Danzig,1 former Secretary of the Navy, on technological risks. Specifically, this funding will allow Dr. Danzig to revise and publish an already-drafted manuscript exploring and providing guidance on issues facing the US government related to potential risks from advanced technology (e.g., biosecurity, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence risks). In addition to completing the manuscript, this funding will allow Dr. Danzig to host a workshop and deliver approximately four speeches to military and intelligence community officials on the topic of technological risks in national security.

    Our main reason for supporting this work is our broad alignment with many of Dr. Danzig’s concerns and suggestions around technological risks—for example, the belief that the national security community should spend more time thinking about emergent risks and risks of accidents from increasingly sophisticated technology, and how to respond to them. Additionally, we see Dr. Danzig as a particularly good person to spread this type of message within the national security community, given his experience there.

    This grant falls within our work on global catastrophic risks.

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    CNAS, Richard J. Danzig, September 2017 [archive only] Source
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