Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

IAPS describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that produces policy research on the implications of AI S-3610. 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. An August 2026 IAPS report by Avellar and Grunewald, also posted on arXiv, 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.