CSET’s Emelia Probasco shared her expert insight in an article published by DefenseScoop. The article examines the Pentagon’s push to transition the Maven Smart System (MSS) into a formal program of record, expanding its role as an AI-enabled platform that integrates military data, accelerates targeting decisions, and supports operations across combatant commands. Read More

CSET’s Emelia Probasco shared her expert insight in an article published by The New York Times. The article examines the accelerating global race to develop A.I.-powered autonomous weapons and how nations are integrating these systems into modern warfare. Read More

CSET’s Jacob Feldgoise shared his expert analysis in an article published by Bloomberg. The article examines how staffing shortages, licensing bottlenecks, and shifting policy direction at the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security could slow U.S. efforts to expand global AI chip exports. Read More

🔔 The number of AI-related governance documents continues to grow rapidly, but what risks, mitigations, and other concepts do these documents actually cover? MIT AI Risk Initiative researchers expanded their pipeline with CSET to map over 1,000 AI governance documents from the AGORA dataset to several extensible taxonomies. These taxonomies cover AI risks, actors, industry sectors, AI lifecycle stages, legislative status, and AI system technical scope, complementing AGORA’s thematic taxonomy of risk factors, harms, governance strategies, incentives for compliance, and application areas. Read More

CSET’s Hanna Dohmen shared her insight in an article published by The Washington Post. The article examines new bipartisan legislation in the House Foreign Affairs Committee that would expand U.S. export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment and push allied countries to align more closely with Washington’s chip restrictions in the competition with China. Read More

CSET’s Kathleen Curlee shared her expert insight in an article published by Reuters. The article examines how NASA’s Artemis progress is intensifying geopolitical competition with China as both countries advance plans for crewed lunar missions and long-term presence on the Moon. Read More

CSET’s Lauren Kahn shared her expert insight in an article published by WIRED. The article examines the U.S. Army’s development of an internal AI chatbot system called Victor, designed to help soldiers access operational knowledge and mission-critical information drawn from real military data and past combat experiences. Read More

CSET’s Katie Caroll shared her expert perspective in an op-ed published by The Hill. In the piece, she explains that the ability to rapidly retrain AI models in crises may determine battlefield adaptability and presents a critical challenge for U.S. military readiness. Read More

CSET’s Emelia Probasco shared her expert perspective in an article published by DefenseScoop. The article examines the Pentagon’s decision to make the Maven Smart System a formal program of record and its implications for U.S. military AI and command-and-control capabilities. Read More

CSET’s Kathleen Curlee shared her expert insight in an article published by Business Insider. The article examines the growing interest in space-based data centers as a potential solution to AI’s increasing energy and land demands. Read More