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Articles by Daniel Remler
Behind the Front Line
Executive Summary This report considers the near-term opportunities that exist for integrating agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across the Department of War.
CNAS Insights | Sovereign AI’s Second Wave Is Coming Into View
Earlier this year, CNAS launched the Sovereign AI Index to track every government-backed sovereign AI project since 2023. These projects seek to improve a country’s AI self-reliance by increasing capacity and reducing dependency at the infrastructure, model, and data layers of the AI stack. Our tracking shows that, over the past three years, rapid AI progress and growing anxiety about technological dependence have produced a global surge of sovereign AI projects.
Test, Standardize, Restrict: A U.S. Policy for Chinese AI Models
This article was originally published in Just Security. The release of the sprightly named Kimi K3 AI model from Chinese developer Moonshot has prompted a fresh round of debate over America’s AI policy. Kimi K3 leads a pack of Chinese AI models with sophisticated coding capabilities, open weights—published for anyone to download—low costs, and a lack of guardrails, a combination that has delighted technologists but alarmed national security officials.
CNAS Insights | Washington Can’t Afford to Ignore AI’s Warning Shot
On July 21, OpenAI disclosed the first publicly known incident of AI models escaping their isolated testing environment, gaining unauthorized internet access and hacking into another company’s systems. No human directed this intrusion. The models did all this just to cheat on a cybersecurity test. Although the attack was detected and remediated, it marks a shift from theory to reality: Frontier AI systems can take consequential, harmful actions in the world against their operators’ intent.
Can China Keep Its AI Open?
This article was originally published in The Wire China. On July 16, Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model that within a day had displaced Anthropic’s most advanced offering, Fable 5, atop a widely watched frontend coding leaderboard, a first for a Chinese model.
Closing the Remote Access Loop
This article was originally published in Issues in Science and Technology. As Asad Ramzanali argues in “Why the Cloud Needs Competition” (Issues, Winter 2026), cloud computing has become critical infrastructure for everyday American life and national security. It is also the primary platform on which frontier artificial intelligence, the leading edge of AI capability, is built and trained—and therefore central to US-China competition and securing American AI leadership.
Losing the War of the Future
This article was originally published in Foreign Affairs. In its recent campaign against Iran, the United States dominated the skies using its traditional airpower. The U.S. military pounded Iranian targets, conducting over 13,000 strikes. That prowess and devastating firepower did not stop Iran from hitting back. Over the course of the 39-day conflict that began on February 28 and stopped on April 8, Iran launched over 2,200 missiles and 4,400 drones against countries in the region.
Noteworthy | Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The United States continues to lead the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of the enormous talent and innovation of our AI industry, and because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation.
CNAS Expands AI Policy Research with New Appointments
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce three new staff hires as it expands its multiyear Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security and Stability Initiative. Daniel Remler joins CNAS as a new senior fellow with the Technology and National Security Program after three years at the U.S. Department of State.
Recommendations for Promoting American AI Abroad
Strategic Context and Program Objectives The American AI Exports Program is an ambitious and essential proposal to expand the reach of American AI technologies in foreign markets. The United States has long channeled its energy and resources to advancing the frontier of AI, while promoting international diffusion has thus far received less sustained attention.
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