Focus Areas
Threats that outpace institutions.
The Arcis Project will focus on detecting, analyzing and providing solutions for threats that outpace traditional policy responses. Founding areas of focus include, but are not limited to, the two below.
Narrative Control, Influence and Cognitive Security
The contest over what a population believes is continuous and largely unseen. State and non-state actors shape information environments through platforms, intermediaries, and the selective release of fact.
We study how these efforts are built, how they reach their audiences, and where an open society is most exposed.
- Artificial IntelligenceCapability held by adversaries, dependence on systems few can inspect, and decisions made faster than they can be reviewed.
- Information InfrastructureWho owns and controls the platforms and networks that carry public information.
- Media WarfareMedia used as an instrument of conflict against civilian populations.
- Information IntegrityThe reliability of the facts a society uses to make decisions.
Emerging Infrastructure Insecurity
Systems that civilian life depends on often run on technology older than the threats against them. Known vulnerabilities can stay open for years when no agency owns the fix or no budget covers it.
We identify where those gaps are, rank them by consequence, and set out how to close them.
- CVE identification and prioritizationTracking published vulnerabilities in critical systems and ranking them by consequence.
- Security solutions and innovationsIdentifying viable fixes and the technologies that make them possible.
- AI policy blind spotsWhere AI policy falls short as it pertains to infrastructure.
Review
Priorities are reviewed annually against emerging threat signals.