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Dual-use items, export control regimes, investment screening and compute
Technology security: dual-use, export controls and compute governance
Technology security covers the security governance of technologies that can be used for harm as well as benefit: dual-use research and goods, export control regimes, investment screening and the governance of advanced compute, what these instruments can and cannot control, and how organisations comply.
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- Dual-use technology and research
- Multilateral export control regimes
- National export and investment screening
- Compute governance and thresholds
- Semiconductor supply and controls
- Technology transfer and research security
- Compliance programmes for controlled items
- Effects of controls on innovation and access
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Dual-use technology, export controls and compute governance.
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03The subject
The subject, methods and measures and debates and bodies
The field and its scope
For export control and research security officers, policy analysts and technology leaders who must understand how dual-use goods, research, investment and advanced compute are controlled, what the controls achieve and how organisations comply.
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04The method
From parameters and tokens to a threshold: how training compute becomes a regulatory trigger
The compute used to train a model is about six times its parameter count times the tokens it sees; measured in floating-point operations, that quantity is compared with a stated threshold, and crossing it triggers obligations, screening and sometimes a licence decision.
Sources: Sastry and others, Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (2024); European Parliament and Council, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) (2024); European Parliament and Council, Regulation (EU) 2021/821 setting up a Union regime for the control of exports of dual-use items (2021); Ding and Dafoe, The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI (2021); Bengio and others, International AI Safety Report 2025 (2025).
05At a glance
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Technology security: dual-use, export controls and compute governance at a glance
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07Practice
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Key terms
Term
Dual-use item
A good, software or technology that can be used for both civilian and military or harmful purposes.
Term
Export control
A legal restriction on sending certain goods, software or technology abroad.
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Investment screening
A government review of foreign investment in sensitive sectors for security risk.
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Compute governance
Rules and practices that oversee access to and use of large-scale computing for advanced AI.
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