The trojan submarine: AUKUS, Pillar II, and the U.S. ITAR
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the announcement of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership in September 2021, critics have attacked the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) as a key obstacle to its success. Echoing long-standing frustrations over the regulatory burden of the ITAR, these critics manufactured an “AUKUS-ITAR dilemma” which seemed to require a general ITAR exemption for military trade between the three partner countries. This dilemma minimized critical disparities between the Australian, U.K., and U.S. military export control regimes and exaggerated the impact of ITAR reform on the success of AUKUS, especially on the emerging technology collaboration envisioned in the second pillar of the partnership. Yet recent U.S. legislation and regulatory reform indicate that rather than eliminating U.S. military export controls, the AUKUS-ITAR dilemma has resulted in a more robust, ITAR-based plurilateral export control regime dominated by U.S. interests and primed for further expansion.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it