Ex-White House Official Launches Center for Technology & Statecraft for Forward-Looking AI Policy
dtompaine · x · 2026-08-20
Saif M. Khan announced the Center for Technology & Statecraft (CTS), a new non-partisan policy research initiative in Washington, DC, supported by the Institute for Progress.
CTS positions itself as a research organization producing novel, foundational work rather than reacting to current DC debates. Its two initial pillars: how policy can shape virtual and physical automation over the next decade as the social contract is reimagined, and how to manage long-term international AI competition while keeping great-power relations stable. Both build on analysis of the AI value chain—from chipmaking tools and tokens to AI robots and software agents—plus the inputs of compute, algorithms, and data.
The essay notes US AI capital investment is already close to 1% of GDP and drives the majority of growth in private investment.
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