“Is Senator Cotton right in claiming many Chinese students are going back to China, armed with cutting-edge training in fields like AI? The available evidence — including our research — suggests he’s not,” writes CSET Research Fellow Remco Zwetsloot. Read More

“Congress must continue to function during national crises, even if we cannot meet in person for weeks or months at a time.” Senators Portman and Durbin and CSET Founding Director Jason Matheny make the case for remote congressional voting. Read More

Findings about the coronavirus have emerged from the CORD-19 collection of more than 52,000 scholarly papers. The dataset, coordinated by CSET’s Dewey Murdick, has over 1.5 million visits and 75,000 downloads. Read More

Saif M. Khan and Alexander Mann offer a deep dive into the strategic advantages of AI chips in their recently published report. Among their findings: companies increasingly use AI chips to lower the high-costs of training for certain deep-learning projects. Read More

Within four days of the CORD-19 database going live, “it received more than 594,000 views and 183 analyses.” The project has produced preliminary findings—including COVID-19 protein structure and risk factors. Read More

A collaborative effort led by CSET across tech companies, philanthropic organizations and the US government led to the creation of CORD-19”—a database of 44,000 scholarly articles on COVID-19 using machine learning to help researchers swiftly answer key questions. Read More

Within the first five days of launch, the CORD-19 database had “already garnered over 500,000 views, and been downloaded more than 18,000 times.” CSET coordinated the effort at the urging of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Read More

Read this feature on CSET's work to organize the AI scholarly community in an effort to use data-mining techniques to spur scientific discoveries that address COVID-19. Read More

When the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a call to action to the AI community, CSET and other research groups responded with a machine learning tool for answering questions about COVID-19. Read More

As the COVID pandemic moves across the world, many AI researchers have been wondering how they can best help. A good starting place is developing new data mining and text analysis tools for the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). Read More