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CSET Receives $2 Million Grant To Fund New CyberAI Project

The Hoya

December 6, 2019

Thanks to a generous grant from the Hewlett Foundation, CSET is launching a new Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence project to be led by Ben Buchanan. The project will examine the potential risks of AI in cyberspace and national security.

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Accelerating threats to cybersecurity, the impact of automation on cyber defense, and the degree to which cyber operations will become faster and more powerful are among the subjects that CSET will now start to explore thanks to a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

As part of the $500,000 agreement, SPL will assist CSET in investigating the legal, policy and security impacts of emerging technology, supporting academic work in security and technology studies and delivering nonpartisan analysis to the law and policy community. Judge Baker is the grant’s primary investigator.

Georgetown’s Ethics Lab and CSET were awarded $86,000 from the Public Interest Technology University Network. The grant will support innovative, replicable workshops on artificial intelligence to train future leaders in tech policy.