
Alasdair Phillips-Robins is a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on emerging technology and national security. From 2023 to 2025, he served as a senior policy advisor to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, where he covered AI, semiconductors, export controls, and other emerging technology and international issues.
Current export rules focus on keeping chips a generation behind. They should focus on keeping America's total compute ahead.