Jessica Maksimov
Policy Analyst
Former Science, Technology & Policy Fellow at the Department of Energy; Former AI Research Assistant at the Georgetown University Center for Security Studies; Former Boren Fellow in Warsaw, Poland; Former Graduate Intern at the U.S. Department of State
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Wargaming Needs AI. The Department of War Isn’t Ready.
Scene-Setting You've been invited to an exclusive wargame, held in the hardest-to-access pentagonal-shaped building in the world. You enter an LED-lit room, wrapped in a...
Read Full Analysis →We Can’t Manage What We Can’t Measure: Why It’s Critical to Standardize Data Center Energy Reporting
While tech titans race to dominate AI benchmarks, their ambitions run on electricity, and lots of it. Take xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Tennessee. It's drawing...
Read Full Analysis →Midway to Milliseconds: Wargaming the Next Technology Revolution
Between the world wars, military establishments confronted a technological revolution. Sonar. Radar. Aviation. Submarines. Wireless communications. Each represented a fundamental reordering of how countries would...
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