person
Elsa Kania
CNAS adjunct senior fellow; China AI specialist
Adjunct senior fellow at CNAS specializing in Chinese military innovation; cited extensively in U.S. policy debates about Chinese AI development.
current Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security; PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Strategy positions
Compute governanceendorses
Control flops via export controls, licensing, reportingArgues China's military-civil fusion strategy makes Chinese frontier AI a national-security concern for the U.S., and that calibrated export controls are the most effective response.
China's strategy is to leverage AI for what it calls 'intelligentized warfare'. Western democracies have to take that seriously without overreacting to specific capability claims.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.