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Courtney Manning

Courtney Manning is the Director of AI Imperative 2030 at The American Security Project, where she leads a team of cross-disciplinary stakeholders investigating the critical geostrategic forces driving the global AI race in the 21st century. Formerly, Courtney led ASP’s research portfolios on military recruitment and readiness, strategic competition with China, and emerging technology risks. Before ASP, she worked as a geopolitical risk consultant on international human rights law, political risk, and climate security in New York, where she worked with the Peruvian government to produce a new policy framework for lithium mining and the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to rebuild the advising team, write speeches and security strategies, and coordinate sessions at the UNSC, UNGA, and Organization of Islamic Cooperation. 

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‘Targeted and Precise’: Innovation versus Regulation in the Critical Technology Sector  

The People’s Republic of China’s illicit transfer and weaponization of foreign critical technologies pose a dire threat to U.S. national security and global leadership. While the dominant policy discourse promotes a whole-of-government approach to mitigating these risks, less attention has been given to the potential negative effects of the shift to stronger industrial policies on the American research and development ecosystem. Even when written for strategic competitiveness, too-broad regulations stifle innovation by imposing barriers to entry for new competitors, with disproportionate negative impacts falling on parties with less access to capital and who abide strictly by the law.  

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