Institute On National Security

  • General Paul M. Nakasone (Ret.), Founding Director of Vanderbilt Institute of National Security talks with Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI (Virtual) Institute of National Security 2025 Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. Photo: Harrison McClary/Vanderbilt University

    Sam Altman on future AI: ‘Do we shape it or let it shape us?’

    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT—and perhaps the most prominent figure shaping the future of artificial intelligence in the U.S.—joined the fourth annual Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats for a wide-ranging virtual conversation on the national security… Read More

    May. 9, 2025

  • Chancellor Daniel Diermeier gives keynote address at 2025 Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats at Vanderbilt University

    ‘We must lead’: Diermeier calls AI a defining challenge for American leadership

    Chancellor Daniel Diermeier opened the fourth annual Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats with a call for bold, collaborative leadership to meet the unprecedented challenges posed by artificial intelligence.  “We are living through a moment of extraordinary promise—and extraordinary peril,” Diermeier said. “That… Read More

    May. 9, 2025