The Hudson Institute is a Washington, DC policy research organization whose defense and technology programs address US-China strategic competition, semiconductor and export-control policy, and the national-security exposure of commercial technology infrastructure. Its AI-relevant output reaches policy debate largely through fellows' congressional testimony and published commentary rather than through a standing institutional AI framework.
AI and technology policy work
The institute's most developed AI-policy contribution on record is David Feith's prepared statement of September 2, 2026 to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, A New Counterintelligence Map for the AI Age, which argues that US counterintelligence must extend to five privately held ecosystems: sensitive sites and drone exposure, the power grid and data-center hardware, frontier AI labs, advanced compute and the semiconductor supply chain, and startups crossing what it calls a counterintelligence threshold (A New Counterintelligence Map for the AI Age (Feith, HPSCI, 2026-09-02)). The statement was hosted on the institute's own media infrastructure.
The institute's positioning on these questions is broadly restrictionist on technology transfer to China and expansionist on domestic AI infrastructure buildout — the Feith statement argues for building data centers "faster and at extraordinary scale" while securing their hardware supply chains, and treats export controls, counterintelligence, and economic security as a single mission (A New Counterintelligence Map for the AI Age (Feith, HPSCI, 2026-09-02)).
Affiliated fellows
- David Feith — senior fellow; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and former National Security Council senior director for technology and national security.
- Mike Gallagher — distinguished fellow; former chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and Head of Defense at Palantir (Source: hudson.org).
Relationships
- related: Export Controls (AI) — fellows' work on chip controls and diversion enforcement
- related: AI and National Security
- related: US-China AI Competition: Different Races, Different Metrics
- supports: AI Data Centers — data-center hardware provenance as a grid-security question