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In their op-ed featured in Lawfare, CSET’s Matthew Burtell and Helen Toner shared their expert analysis on the significant implications of government procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, emphasizing the need for high ethical and safety standards. Read More

CSET's Sam Bresnick discussed Chinese military capabilities with the South China Morning Post. Read More

In an article published by the Financial Time exploring the rapid rise of AI-generated conspiracy theories and spam content on social media platforms, CSET's Josh A. Goldstein provided his expert insights. Read More

Happy Women's History Month! CSET recognizes and celebrate women in national security, tech policy, literature and business. Read More

In a new preprint paper, CSET's Josh A. Goldstein and the Stanford Internet Observatory's Renee DiResta explored the use of AI-generated imagery to drive Facebook engagement. Read More

"U.S. and Chinese Military AI Purchases," a report by CSET, was referenced in an Axios article. The article explores the potential threat of AI-powered drone swarms, which could challenge the dominance of advanced military technologies. Read More

In EqualAI's podcast 'In AI We Trust?', Helen Toner discusses key AI issues like China's policies, AI in warfare, and regulation challenges. Read More

In a recent episode of the Corner Alliance's "AI, Government, and the Future" podcast that explores the challenges of assessing AI systems and managing their risk, Mina Narayanan, a Research Analyst at CSET, provides her expert take. Read More

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is making changes to drastically simplify the criteria that determine its highly coveted R1 top-tier research classification. Last year, CSET Senior Fellow, Jaret Riddick, wrote about a new law from Congress, Section 223 of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, intended to leverage existing Carnegie classification criteria to increase defense research capacity for historically Black colleges and universities. Now, research is needed to understand how the changes proposed for 2025 classification criteria impact U.S. Department of Defense goals for eligible HBCU partners. Read More

This blog post assesses how different priorities can change the risk-benefit calculus of open foundation models, and provides divergent answers to the question of “given current AI capabilities, what might happen if the U.S. government left the open AI ecosystem unregulated?” By answering this question from different perspectives, this blog post highlights the dangers of hastily subscribing to any particular course of action without weighing the potentially beneficial, risky, and ambiguous implications of open models. Read More