CSET Director of Strategy Helen Toner weighs in on the U.S. government's growing interest in direct investments to support continued technology innovation. Read More

"Today, the United States and its allies and partners are not cooperating but competing for Chinese talent," writes CSET's Remco Zwetsloot in Brookings TechStream. He offers an agenda for multilateral collaboration on talent and technology transfer. Read More

International talent plays a pivotal role in America’s AI advantage. “Through 2018, nine out of 10 Chinese nationals who completed doctorate degrees stayed for at least five years after graduation,” writes The New York Times, citing CSET research. Read More

Following an active week for new artificial intelligence, science and technology legislation, CSET provides a guide to the latest bills that you should know. Read More

"Does machine learning get offensive actors anything they don't already have?" asks Ben Buchanan, Director of CSET's CyberAI program. He joined the CyberLaw podcast to discuss the impacts of AI on offensive and defensive cyber operations. Read More

"When it comes to high-stakes settings," write Jacob Steinhardt and CSET's Helen Toner, "machine learning is a risky choice." Their piece in Brookings TechStream offers rules of thumb for assessing risk of failure in ML. Read More

"Unlike some earlier national security technologies, the commercial sector plays an outsize role in AI development." This raises important questions about how antitrust enforcement might affect the Pentagon's ability to access AI innovation. Read More

CSET research on top AI hubs in the United States was cited twice in this roundup of AI news: about centers of AI employment, and about focal points of AI industry funding. Read More

“There are different ways that one could define military connections to the PLA in China," said CSET's Remco Zwetsloot. "Obviously it’s a very opaque system and there’s a way to cast a very broad net and there’s a way to cast a very narrow net.” He spoke with Inside Higher Ed about U.S. technology talent flows and policies. Read More

American chip companies depend on foreign graduates and workers, write Remco Zwetsloot and Will Hunt. New large-scale immigration restrictions, if successful, will hamstring efforts to bring home advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Read More