Analysis & Opinions

Belfer Center experts on security, intelligence, and cybersecurity issues were interviewed on the recent leak of classified military intelligence documents allegedly by Airman Jack Teixeira.

Thanks to large language models, a single scammer can run hundreds or thousands of cons in parallel, night and day, in every language under the sun.

Joseph S. Nye argues that history shows that globalization is largely driven by technological changes that reduce the importance of distance, and that will not change.

Juliette Kayyem analyzes the social-media platform's crisis that has become a real-world crisis

Ivan Arreguin-Toft analyzes the West's information technology asymmetry of capability, which has given way to asymmetry of vulnerability. While democracies worldwide remain threatened, they also contain the means to restore themselves.

Ivan Arreguin-Toft argues that non-material considerations like cyber power matter just as much as material ones in debates about U.S. retrenchment from the Middle East.

Ivan Arreguin-Toft argues that data analysis is like any other tool; its impact on people's lives depends upon its owners' intentions.

Airbnb's refugee-helping program has some advantages over the "ghost-booking" model. But it mitigates against the very sort of grassroots organizing that is currently running the engine of the relief effort for Ukrainian refugees. What is missing is a technological solution to bridge the gap between the two approaches argues Charli Carpenter.

Joseph Nye argues hat the major threat to U.S. power comes from its internal divisions. These are serious liabilities but they were not created by the invasion of Ukraine.

The powerful effects of artificial intelligence are already being felt in business, politics, medicine, war, and almost every other domain of twenty-first century life. For all of its positive potential, the technology presents significant risks that are best addressed sooner rather than later.