
Noah Tan is the James C. Gaither Junior Fellow for the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work centers on AI supply chains and international technology competition. Previously, he was a research affiliate at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution, where he worked on international security and economic statecraft. He holds a B.A. In International Relations with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and is a 2027 Schwarzman Scholar.
Current export rules focus on keeping chips a generation behind. They should focus on keeping America's total compute ahead.