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The AI Policy Podcast

Join CSIS’s Aalok Mehta, Director of the Wadhwani AI Center, on a deep dive into the world of AI policy. Every two weeks, tune in for insightful discussions covering AI regulation, economic impacts, national security, geopolitics, and more. CSIS is a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

Last published 29 October 2026 115 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The AI Policy Podcast

“This is the fundamental dilemma in cybersecurity: there is no real difference between cyber defense and cyber offense, except what seat you're sitting on and what your intentions are. White hat hackers and black hat hackers are both hacking. Some are hacking with the intent of finding vulnerabilities and sharing them with organizations so they can fix them, and others to exploit them.” — Aalok Mehta, The AI Policy Podcast
Aalok Mehta · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“As a writer, I don't feel like AI has gotten much better at writing in the past two years. I think it's basically stayed about the same. Sometimes it even gets worse. And I know that's because my use case is not being prioritized at the companies.” — Jasmine Sun, The AI Policy Podcast
Jasmine Sun · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of the biggest surprises I had when I was talking to people about data centers was how rarely AI ever came up. Until the very end of my interviews when I would almost always ask people, by the way, do you use AI? Are you worried about AI? Do you like ChatGPT? People basically never brought it up.” — Jasmine Sun, The AI Policy Podcast
Jasmine Sun · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The AI Policy Podcast is hosted by Aalok Mehta , Gregory C. Allen , Nicole Herrera , Alec Metha , Matt Mand , Matt Mann , H. Andrew Schwartz , Sarah Baker and Andrew Schwartz .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    AI Cyber Incidents Pile Up + Anthropic’s Draft Safety Bill

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    Tracing the Evolution of Russia's Geran Drone with CSIS's Kateryna Bondar, Nicole Errera & Samuel Bendett 

    With Kateryna Bondar , Nicole Errera and Samuel Bendett

  3. 15 Oct 2026

    Trump Launches Super Intelligence Force + OpenAI Does More Math

  4. 8 Oct 2026

    Unpacking the Data Center Backlash with Jasmine Sun

    With Jasmine Sun

  5. 1 Oct 2026

    OpenAI Agents Hack Australian Government and Trump Rejects Global Governance at UNGA

  6. 24 Sep 2026

    How AI Startups are Navigating Regulation with Maryam Mujica and Munjal Shah

    With Maryam Mujica and Munjal Shah

  7. 17 Sep 2026

    AI Safety Goes Mainstream

  8. 10 Sep 2026

    Decoding State-Level Regulation with Jason Elliott

    With Jason Elliott

  9. 3 Sep 2026

    METR Investigates OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident and California Legislature Advances IVO Framework

  10. 27 Aug 2026

    Responding to AI Agent Containment Failures with CSET's Helen Toner, LawAI's Mackenzie Arnold & CSIS's Matt Pearl

    With Matt Pearl , Mackenzie Arnold and Helen Toner

  11. 20 Aug 2026

    OpenAI Pauses RL Training and Anthropic Adds Watermarks to AI-Generated Text

  12. 13 Aug 2026

    Planning for the AI-Powered Economy with Windfall's Adrian Brown

    With Adrian Brown

Guests

Joseph Majkut (2 episodes), Georgia Adamson (2 episodes), Kateryna Bondar (2 episodes), Lennart Heim (2 episodes), Kara Frederick , Adrian Brown , Laurent Bili , Mackenzie Arnold , Alexandr Wang , Chris Rohlf , Vilas Dhar , Andrew Freedman , and 51 more.