Buchanan's AI Triad taxonomy still tops AI governance courses six years on

luke_drago_ · x · 2026-09-23

Recommending Ben Buchanan's "The AI Triad and What It Means for National Security" as the first read for policy-oriented readers: his taxonomy of algorithms, data, and compute still works six years later, and 2024 user interviews showed it was the most-cited piece in an AI governance course.

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