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Vishnu Kannan

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Vishnu Kannan is a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. He was previously the advisor to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he led executive office strategic initiatives and the president’s research team.

His own work focuses on technology competition, political economy, and the legal dimensions of U.S. national security policy. Previously at Carnegie, he helped lead the Technology and International Affairs Program’s work on cloud computing and governance and supported research on influence operations. 

Prior to joining Carnegie, he was also a writer at Lawfare and a researcher at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His writing has appeared in Lawfare and been cited in the New Yorker and the New York Times. He holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, where he studied International Relations, Political Theory, and Economics.

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BA, Michigan State University

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The Future of International Scientific Assessments of AI’s Risks

Managing the risks of artificial intelligence will require international coordination among many actors with different interests, values, and perceptions.

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  • Hadrien Pouget
  • Claire Dennis
  • Jon Bateman
  • Robert Trager
  • Renan Araujo
  • Haydn Belfield
  • Belinda Cleeland
  • Malou Estier
  • Gideon Futerman
  • Oliver Guest
  • Carlos Ignacio Gutierrez
  • Vishnu Kannan
  • Casey Mahoney
  • Matthijs Maas
  • Charles Martinet
  • Jakob Mökander
  • Kwan Yee Ng
  • Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
  • Aidan Peppin
  • Konrad Seifert
  • Scott Singer
  • Maxime Stauffer
  • Caleb Withers
  • Marta Ziosi
· August 27, 2024
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Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Leaders
May 29, 2024

Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Leaders is a special half-day conference hosted by the 2023-2024 James C. Gaither Junior Fellows. Over the course of three sessions, panelists will discuss issues impacting youth including the evolving global order and role of institutions, climate change, AI, radicalization, and shifts in the information landscape.   

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In The Media
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Chips Act: A How To Guide

The policy is pitched as this really forward looking, game changer for the way the U.S. thinks about technology. That might be right but it's also fundamentally reactive.

· January 17, 2023
ChinaTalk
In The Media
in the media
What’s in the Commerce Department’s Recent Export Controls on Technology Bound for China?

A key question for consideration is whether the restrictions will lead to a “Sputnik moment” and accelerate the PRC toward a goal of developing an indigenous chip manufacturing industry.

· November 23, 2022
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After the CHIPS Act: The Limits of Reshoring and Next Steps for U.S. Semiconductor Policy

As America’s conscious foray into industrial policy, the CHIPS Act is an important political breakthrough and a potentially transformative piece of legislation.

· November 22, 2022
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Carnegie Cloud Governance Toolkit

Carnegie’s Cloud Governance Project offers a holistic, first-of-its-kind framework for understanding and addressing a wide range of interrelated cloud policy issues across a number of strategic areas.

In The Media
in the media
Summary: Declassified Nov. 2020 FISC Opinion

An analysis of a declassified decision granting the U.S. government’s request for approval to continue collecting information on non-U.S. persons in order to acquire foreign intelligence information.

· June 22, 2021
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Community Perspectives on Diversity in the Countering Influence Operations Field

Increasing diversity in the field of countering influence operations is essential to the field’s future. Members of the counter–influence operations community discuss the barriers to greater diversity and recommendations for making progress.

In The Media
in the media
Repairing the Rule of Law: An Agenda for Post-Trump Reform

Trump’s attacks on foundational norms and principles leave policymakers with two choices. Lawmakers and voters can accept that damage and admit the inevitability of American decline, or they can fight to restore and strengthen the country’s legal guardrails.

· September 7, 2020