Iskandar Haykel
Senior Policy Analyst
Former bioethicist at Google (via Advanced Clinical); Former researcher in NYU’s digital governance initiative
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After Mythos
Anthropic's latest AI model, Claude Mythos, has arrived with visions of impending upheaval and future crises in tow. Within days of the new model's launch,...
Read Full Analysis →AI Safety Research Highlights of 2025
2025 has shaped up to be a watershed year for AI safety and security. Frontier models showed improved potential to facilitate CBRN threats, lending greater...
Read Full Analysis →The Stick, the Carrot, and the Net: Policy Approaches for Addressing AI Agent Harms
This report examines three policy approaches for addressing AI agent harms: the “stick” of conventional tort liability; the “carrot” of liability immunity in exchange for...
Read Full Analysis →Federal Preemption of State Laws
Author Iskandar Haykel examines how state laws would be impacted by federal legislation that would preempt state AI regulation for the next 10 years. This...
Read Full Analysis →AI Security Tax Incentives
The Case For AI Security Tax Incentives & How They Could Work Americans for Responsible Innovation recently released a proposal to institute a tax incentive...
Read Full Analysis →Explainer: DeepSeek, Distillation, and AI IP Theft
What Distillation and Model Weight Theft Means for the Future of U.S. AI Innovation & Policy Last week, ARI held a panel with technical and...
Read Full Analysis →Want Insight into AI Policy Under President Trump? Four Questions for Secretary of Commerce Nominee Howard Lutnick
As the Trump Administration makes its first moves on AI policy, the Commerce Department will likely remain a nerve center for AI policymaking over the...
Read Full Analysis →2024 AI Recap: Three Trends in AI This Year
Moving Away from Big Models, Embracing the Military, and Fighting Regulation By David Robusto and Iskandar Haykel The world of artificial intelligence looks different than...
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