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“A lot of the policy discussion remains, ‘Let’s throw more money at it; let’s get more AI, bigger AI, better AI,’” CSET's Tim Hwang said. “But that is still not working at the level of granularity we really need to think about what, specifically, do we want to advance to ensure U.S. leadership in this space." He weighed in Congress' latest efforts to support federal AI research. Read More

"More than 80 percent of international doctoral students in artificial intelligence remain in the country after graduation." Two recent CSET reports were cited in the Atlantic to make the case for immigration reform to boost American innovation. Read More

CSET Research Fellow Tim Hwang advises the United Nations on artificial intelligence ethics, as the body seeks to advance principles to address concerns around "bias and misuse of machine automation." Read More

Axios Future highlights the findings of a new CSET data brief, which finds that a growing rate of noncitizen U.S. residents are departing for Canada. Read More

On the 75th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test, CSET's Jason Matheny shares a reflection on the importance of evaluating risks as new emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are deployed. Read More

New ICE restrictions on foreign students speed up a trend that make it slower and costlier for immigrants to come to the United States, write Zachary Arnold and Tina Huang. America’s historic near-monopoly on the global market for foreign talent is fading. Read More

The Chinese official response to President Trump's visa suspension has been “critical but relatively muted,” according to a CSET media reaction brief by Emily Weinstein and Dahlia Peterson. Read More

In March, CSET partnered with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as leading research groups, to develop the COVID-19 Open Research Database. The project produced early findings about the disease—including the COVID-19 protein structure and risk factors. Read More

At the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, CSET coordinated the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset. The project is the result of a collaboration between CSET, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Read More

"More than a third of H-1B holders have an AI-related degree," according to research conducted by CSET's Remco Zwetsloot. Restricting H-1B visas may jeopardize U.S. competitiveness in AI. Read More