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    "id": "O-0204",
    "slug": "institute-for-ai-policy-and-strategy",
    "title": "Institute for AI Policy and Strategy",
    "aliases": [
      "IAPS"
    ],
    "status": "draft",
    "last_reviewed": "2026-09-23",
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    "kind": "research-org",
    "homepage": "https://www.iaps.ai/",
    "one_liner": "A nonpartisan think tank on AI policy; its work on AI chips includes a design and prototype for delay-based location verification.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "source": "S-1400",
        "supports": "location verification report: delay-based design, adversary classes, costs, registry recommendation"
      },
      {
        "source": "S-1401",
        "supports": "issue brief: H100 prototype and landmark running costs"
      },
      {
        "source": "S-1402",
        "supports": "co-written by an IAPS researcher: verification methods for AI chip exports"
      }
    ],
    "type": "organization",
    "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/organizations/institute-for-ai-policy-and-strategy/",
    "source_file": "content/organizations/institute-for-ai-policy-and-strategy.md",
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    "body_markdown": "IAPS describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that produces policy research on the implications of AI. Its verification work concerns AI chips:\n\n- **Location verification report.** Brass and Aarne write that delay-based schemes \"appear to be the most promising approach to location verification\": a trusted landmark server sends the chip a challenge, and the round-trip time bounds the chip's distance from it [[S-1400]]. The report defines three adversary classes and estimates that a solution would cost less than $1 million to set up and maintain for several years [[S-1400]]. See [[M-0018]].\n- **Prototype brief.** A May 2025 IAPS brief reports a rudimentary prototype on NVIDIA H100 chips, with a video demonstration, and estimates $2.5 million to $12.5 million a year to run 100 to 500 landmark servers [[S-1401]].\n- **Registry.** The report recommends combining location checks with a centralized chip registry [[S-1400]]; see [[M-0019]].\n- **Export verification.** A 2026 preprint co-written by an IAPS researcher reviews near-term methods for verifying AI chip exports, including how a regulator could run landmark-based checks and a registry of serial numbers and ownership records [[S-1402]].",
    "body_text": "IAPS describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that produces policy research on the implications of AI. Its verification work concerns AI chips: - Location verification report. Brass and Aarne write that delay-based schemes \"appear to be the most promising approach to location verification\": a trusted landmark server sends the chip a challenge, and the round-trip time bounds the chip's distance from it [S-1400]. The report defines three adversary classes and estimates that a solution would cost less than $1 million to set up and maintain for several years [S-1400]. See Chip location verification. - Prototype brief. A May 2025 IAPS brief reports a rudimentary prototype on NVIDIA H100 chips, with a video demonstration, and estimates $2.5 million to $12.5 million a year to run 100 to 500 landmark servers [S-1401]. - Registry. The report recommends combining location checks with a centralized chip registry [S-1400]; see Chip registries and manufacturing records. - Export verification. A 2026 preprint co-written by an IAPS researcher reviews near-term methods for verifying AI chip exports, including how a regulator could run landmark-based checks and a registry of serial numbers and ownership records [S-1402].",
    "referenced_by": [
      {
        "id": "M-0018",
        "title": "Chip location verification",
        "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/mechanisms/chip-location-verification/"
      },
      {
        "id": "M-0019",
        "title": "Chip registries and manufacturing records",
        "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/mechanisms/chip-registries-and-manufacturing-records/"
      },
      {
        "id": "S-1402",
        "title": "Near-Term Verification Methods for AI Chip Exports",
        "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/sources/avellar-near-term-verification-ai-chip-exports/"
      },
      {
        "id": "S-1400",
        "title": "Location Verification for AI Chips",
        "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/sources/brass-location-verification-ai-chips/"
      },
      {
        "id": "S-1401",
        "title": "Location Verification for AI Chips (issue brief)",
        "url": "https://trustbutveri.fyi/sources/brass-location-verification-issue-brief/"
      }
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