Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thrilled to be Arizona-bound to present my work on "Chips on the Move: Export Controls, Evasion, and the Race for Compute" at #LABScon. Hope to see you there! The fantastic two-day program can be found here: www.labscon.io/speakers/ #chips #compute #semiconductors #ai #geopolitics #natsec 061
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026One of the joys of working at the intersection between tech and national security is that the space is always changing. One of the challenges of teaching tech and national security is … the space is always changing. 1/4 111
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026New Publication Alert: I am thrilled to share that the “Handbook on the Politics of International Agreements” is now available for purchase. 1/3elgaronline.com 100
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I had the pleasure of reviewing four fantastic books this year for ‘Survival: Global Politics and Strategy’: 📚 Katrina Manson's Project Maven 📚 Jon Lindsay's Age of Deception 📚 Max Smeets' Ransom War 📚 Justin Sherman' Navigating Technology and National Security 1/2 100
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 27/01/2026New Publication Alert: It is my pleasure to share that my recent report – coauthored with Alexander Leslie and Taylor Grossman through the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology (CSINT) at American University – is now live. 1/8 www.au-csint.com/publications...au-csint.comBeyond Breaches: The Spectrum of Costs from Espionage and Pre-Positioning — CSINTWhat are the costs of cyber espionage? And how do they differ from those of operations designed to prepare for attack? 102
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The @bindinghook.bsky.social Live agenda is out! I’m honored to join a truly impressive group of people “where digital tech and global affairs meet” later this month in London. I’ll be presenting my research on AI compute, and why chips aren’t enough. See you there! bindinghooklive.com/agenda/ 140
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithBinding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 07/10/2025🗓️ #BindingHookLive agenda is out now! Check it out & request your invite: bindinghooklive.com/agenda/ 011
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Over the past few weeks, I had the pleasure of supporting the SAIS Trilateral Technogy Training Program here in DC and the Bay Area with programming dedicated to #semiconductors, #compute infrastructure, and #AI. 1/3 110
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Looking forward to speaking at #PLAITS2025 today on national security, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors. Hope to see many of you there: futurerealities.org/PLAITS2025/i...futurerealities.orgPLAITS 2025 – Privacy and Liberty in the Age of AI and Immersive TechnologiesJoin us for PLAITS 2025, a micro-think tank conference exploring the intersection of privacy, liberty, and emerging technologies. 020
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Kicking off a week focused on #AI and #semiconductors with the Special Competitive Studies Project’s #SCSPAIExpo25 here in DC. If you are in town, drop me a line. 010
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Last month, I had the pleasure of organizing and moderating a panel delving into the different technologies that fuel artificial intelligence innovation and that underpin the AI triad, including but not limited to energy, data centers, models, and semiconductors. Post-event writeup here ⬇️washingtondc.jhu.eduWhat’s next for AI: Overcoming the barriers to sustained AI growthPolicy and AI leaders outline the current state and potential trajectory of AI capabilities in the U.S. and what can help keep the country at the forefront of AI innovation. 021
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025As the inaugural @iaseai.bsky.social conference wraps this evening in Paris, I am hustling back to my hotel room to (virtually) teach Johns Hopkins SAIS students about AI and national security. Looking forward to reflecting on several IASEAI discussions in my classroom with policy students. 160
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025At #IASEAI25 today, @katecrawford.bsky.social’s tour de force talk on sustainability further drove home, for me, the importance of framing #AI as a Fulcrum Technology. For those who want to learn more about what Fulcrum Technologies are (and are not), an introduction can be found below. 1/2warontherocks.comThe Challenges of Policy in an Era of Fulcrum Technologies - War on the RocksLast month, Alliant Energy announced it will delay converting its Wisconsin coal plant by three years. This delay underscores an important tension: While 140
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025As Paris welcomes the world for the AI Summit, I am thrilled to be here and participating in #IASEAI25 over the next two days. Drop me a line if you are also in town and would like to connect on all things #AI #natsec and #semiconductors / #compute. 1/2 130
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 12/12/2024A podcast I recorded a few days after the election on #semiconductors, #AI, and #natsec just dropped. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts, including ⬇️ It is also well worth checking out their recent episodes with Gavin Wilde (foreign influence ops) and Greg Falco (space & cyber).podcasts.apple.comAI Semiconductors SecurityPodcast Episode · The Looking Glass · 12/11/2024 · 30m 160
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Are you a mid-career government official from the US, Japan, or South Korea interested in #AI, #cybersecurity, #biotech, #space, #semiconductors, #greentech? Join @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social for the 2025 Trilateral Technology Leaders Training Program. Additional details below ⬇️ 090
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 28/11/2024Your cousin just asked about tariffs at Thanksgiving dinner and everyone got quiet. Let's break down how they actually work using what's on your dinner table - and why they usually end up costing families like yours more money. 1/ 4315
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024New export controls focused on advanced #computing and #semiconductors were announced today. Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security announcement: lnkd.in/enzhMTgD New Entity List & Validated End-User rules: lnkd.in/e6jisHdw New Foreign Direct Product & other export controls: lnkd.in/eWB4RUEe 0216
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithRaphael Satter @raphae.li · 27/11/2024This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing: Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists. Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved. www.reuters.com/business/ene...reuters.comExclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources sayThe FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter. 311715857
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithDanny Moore @moore.bsky.social · 26/11/2024One reason I'm cautiously excited that we reached critical mass here is that Bluesky finally has the same intersection of people I cared about on Twitter - natsec, infosec, academia, and journos. 3786
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Congratulations to the entire @virtualroutes.bsky.social team! 040
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024One of the many pleasures of teaching at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is the caliber of our students. Shout out to Stavros Piperidis for spearheading this important site visit to NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT). Read and learn more ⬇️ 1/2sais.jhu.eduStudents Learn from Key Leaders in NATO Site VisitOn November 1, 2024, a group of 29 Johns Hopkins SAIS students and two faculty members traveled to Norfolk, Virginia for a site visit to the NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) headquarters. 140
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 22/11/2024Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...bellingcat.comBellingcat Tech Fellowship Opportunity - bellingcatNovember 21, 2024 We will be reviewing applications for the fellowship on a rolling basis, and expect to interview applicants in the first week of December (2-6 December 2024) Would you like to develo... 281389333
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithOlga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Featuring the substance of our pre-lunchtime talk from Steven Adair @cyberwarcon.bsky.social 032
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Another excellent JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute skills course on the books. If you haven’t had a chance to take this workshop with @jags.bsky.social, I highly recommend it. Additional details ⬇️ 050
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Another excellent #CYBERWARCON in the books! World class lineup of speakers and, as always, great to see everyone. No better way to spend the day. 070
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting my research on critical technologies and technology policy - from AI to semiconductors - at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research. A special thanks to Mike Albertson and Katie Thomas for inviting me. 1/3 120
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I am very much looking forward to speaking at American University School of International Service’s conference on Ally-Shoring and South Korea’s High-Tech Industry on Nov. 15. From semiconductors to cybersecurity, South Korea is a critical partner and global player. Registration and agenda ⬇️eventbrite.comAlly-Shoring and South Korea’s High-Tech IndustryEventbrite - SIS presents Ally-Shoring and South Korea’s High-Tech Industry - Friday, November 15, 2024 at American University, School of International Service, Founders Room, Washington, DC. Find eve... 020
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithJ. A. Guerrero-Saade (JAGS) @jags.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Genuinely excited to see more folks switching to Bsky and the possibility of having discourse that isn’t immediately assumed to be toxic. 1513
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 07/11/2024“Operations, cyber or otherwise, rarely fall into a grey zone by chance. They are calibrated to land there—to take full advantage of the ambiguities of the space—or they routinely land there due to the technical and operational realities of the domain itself.” More ⬇️ 051
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 07/11/2024“Without secure, scalable, and sustainable access to high-performance computing—the chips underpinning AI, the data centers and devices housing them, and the energy grids powering them—the United States risks ceding the initiative and the contours of our collective AI future to others.” More ⬇️americangerman.instituteTransatlantic Cooperation in the Next U.S. AdministrationThe next U.S. president will be confronted with a plethora of global challenges: war in Europe, a disordered trading system, growing geopolitical competition and a more assertive China, disruptive new... 010
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 07/11/2024The “messy middle between war and peace is not the only grey zone that hackers are exploiting. They are also straddling the line between “crime and statecraft” and the distinction between “espionage and attacks”." Read my latest piece in Articles of War below.lieber.westpoint.eduHybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict Symposium – Cyber Operations are Thriving in the Grey - Lieber Institute West PointCyber operations are thriving in a series of grey zones, widening the aperture of what is possible short of war. 132
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 21/09/2024From catching up with old friends to examining Chinese foreign investment in US farmland, #LABScon24 had it all. You know it’s a great con when you accidentally miss the Alperovitch Institute team photo because you were geeking out with a fellow researcher (we were out in force again this year!). 000
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Current and former students: are you interested in attending #CYBERWARCON? Consider applying to be a volunteer. Volunteering is a great way to network and get a behind-the-scenes look at the conference. You also get to attend for free! Apply today at cyberwarcon.com 040
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 12/09/2024Looking forward to another thought provoking year at #LABScon24! This year’s fantastic lineup includes Max Smeets, Kim Zetter, MJ Emanuel, Dakota Cary, Silas Cutler, Kristin Del Rosso, Tom Hegel, Martin Wendiggensen, Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro, and Juan Andres Guerrero Saade. See you there! 000
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 08/08/2024I had the pleasure of sitting down with Alexis Bonnell, Anne Marie Schumann, Tyler Sweatt, and Ryan Evans to talk about all things cybersecurity and DoD. You know it’s a great conversation when you leave the room buzzing. Huge thanks to Ryan and War on the Rocks for making this happen.warontherocks.comThe Smartest Conversation on Cyber in the Defense Department You've Heard in a Long Time - War on the RocksRyan was joined by Melissa Griffith (SAIS-Johns Hopkins), Anne Marie Schumann (Department of the Navy), Alexis Bonnell (Air Force Research Laboratory), 010
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 25/07/2024I had the pleasure of reviewing three fantastic books for Survival this year: Robert Chesney and Max Smeets’ Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive; James Shires’ The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East; and Jeffrey Ding’s Technology and the Rise of Great Powers. First 50 copies free.tandfonline.comCyber Security and Emerging TechnologiesDeter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence ContestRobert Chesney and Max Smeets (eds). Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. $36.95. 336 pp.The Politics of ... 011
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 02/07/2024We refer to these technologies as “fulcrum technologies” and they will be critical to American policy successes at home and abroad. 000
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithNina Kelsey @ninakelsey.bsky.social · 02/07/2024@melissakgriffith.bsky.social and I just published this piece on policymaking for technologies that sit at the intersection of economics, security, and sustainability - what we're calling "fulcrum technologies" - and I'm pretty happy with it. warontherocks.com/2024/07/the-...warontherocks.comThe Challenges of Policy in an Era of Fulcrum Technologies - War on the RocksLast month, Alliant Energy announced it will delay converting its Wisconsin coal plant by three years. This delay underscores an important tension: While 011
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 02/07/2024The US faces a closing window of opportunity to take the lead in managing a suite of strategically important technologies that require the balancing of three core imperatives - economic, security, and sustainability. Getting this right will pay dividends, while getting it wrong could be disastrous.warontherocks.comThe Challenges of Policy in an Era of Fulcrum Technologies - War on the RocksLast month, Alliant Energy announced it will delay converting its Wisconsin coal plant by three years. This delay underscores an important tension: While 000
Reposted by Melissa K. GriffithHorkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 08/05/2024Just like how overhyping disinformation leads to distorted perceptions and cedes advantages to adversaries, so too does misconstruing loosely confederated nuisance hacktivists as significant instruments of foreign intel entities. Holla at @gavinwilde.bsky.social 🤘 www.wired.com/story/cyber-... 064
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Sitting in on Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro’s @alperovitch.institute Workshop, “Building with AI: an Introduction to Leveraging LLMs for Automation & Intelligence” this morning and loving his humanistic approach. @saishopkins.bsky.social continues to gather incredible researchers and practitioners.alperovitch.sais.jhu.eduAlperovitch Advanced Workshop – Building with AI: an Introduction to Leveraging LLMs for Automation & Intelligence – The Alperovitch Institute 000
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 20/02/2024“For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your phone number on Signal more private.”signal.orgKeep your phone number private with Signal usernamesSignal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, ... 110
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 20/02/2024This ⬇️. I honestly find it really disconcerting how many folks are still regularly using (or have returned to) Twitter/X given everything @olgs7.bsky.social outlined below. 0101
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Has anyone else tried the free Apple Vision Pro demos? I was deeply skeptical heading in, and left amazed. Curious how others are thinking about them in the context of reimagining their work flows (though the entertainment/immersive aspects of images and videos is pretty amazing as well). 000
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social · 16/02/2024The US recently conducted a cyberattack on an Iranian spy ship in the Red Sea intended to sabotage Iran’s intel sharing with Houthis rebels. It is unclear how successful the operation was, but notably the reporting here is a very rare disclosure of a remotely executed covert operation.nbcnews.comU.S. conducted cyberattack on suspected Iranian spy shipThe covert operation was intended to inhibit the ship’s ability to share intelligence with Houthi rebels who have been attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea. 120