The most important challenge facing American science is not whether the United States still leads. It does. The more consequential question is whether the institutions that produced that leadership are evolving quickly enough for a world in which artificial intelligence is changing how discovery happens, strategic technologies are reshaping economic
The dominant narrative in AI governance assumes we are racing toward artificial general intelligence and that the central task of policymakers is to manage that existential risk. Thilo Stadelmann, AI researcher, co-founder of AlpineAI, and Founding Director of the ZHAW Center for Artificial Intelligence , believes that narrative is not only
When four astronauts rounded the far side of the Moon aboard Artemis II and returned home safely, the world paused. For a moment, the noise of geopolitical competition stilled, and humanity watched something rare: a genuine feat of collective ambition, executed at the frontier of what is physically possible. It
A practical guide for navigating technology governance, critical minerals, global partnerships, and strategic competition. Science diplomacy has moved from a specialized practice to a central operating environment for great power competition, industrial strategy, technology governance, and international partnership. The frameworks being built now on artificial intelligence, critical minerals, technology standards,
At the 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the panel on “Innovation Economies & The Business of Emerging Tech” focused less on any single technology and more on the commercial architecture that makes emerging technology possible in the first place. Moderated by Melissa K. Griffith, the discussion featured
At the 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS, one of the most substantive conversations of the day focused on a question that sits at the center of U.S. economic security strategy: how trade policy, technology leadership, and industrial competitiveness are now converging in ways that can no
The 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS opened at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., with a defining question for this moment: what does technological sovereignty actually mean in 2026, and how is it reshaping global power, policy, and markets? The opening panel, “Technological Sovereignty
At the Science Diplomacy Summit 2026, a panel titled Governing the Final Frontier brought together Frank Justice, Director of the Meridian Space Diplomacy Initiative, Victoria Samson, Chief Director for Space Security and Stability at Secure World Foundation, and Valda Vikmanis, Director in the Office of Space Affairs at the U.
