Tag Archive: Artificial intelligence

The Complicated Politics of Trump’s New AI Executive Order

The National Interest
| January 29, 2026

CSET’s Vikram Venkatram, Mina Narayanan, and Jessica Ji shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by The National Interest. The article analyzes the Trump administration’s new AI executive order and its attempt to limit state-level AI regulation, examining the legal, political, and governance challenges this approach creates.

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert perspective in an article published by WIRED. The article explores the U.S. reversal on AI chip export controls, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s lobbying efforts, and how renewed sales of advanced chips to China could shape both U.S. and Chinese semiconductor strategies.

A CSET workshop report was highlighted in an segment published by Axios in its Axios+ newsletter. The segment explores the growing push toward automating AI research and development, examining how far AI systems might go in designing, improving, and training other AI models and what that could mean for innovation, safety, and governance.

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert perspective in an article published by The Wall Street Journal. The article examines China’s military use of AI to develop autonomous drone and robot swarms, drawing inspiration from animal behavior to improve offensive and defensive capabilities.

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert perspective in an article published by TIME. The article examines common misconceptions about artificial intelligence in 2025, including claims that AI progress is stalling, that self-driving cars are inherently more dangerous than human drivers, and that AI systems cannot produce genuinely new knowledge.

CSET’s Helen Toner and Emelia Probasco shared their expert analysis on the podcast The Age of Intelligence. The episode explores how AI is reshaping national security, including the US–China competition, the role of allies, and the challenges of governing AI as a dual use technology.

CSET’s Steph Batalis and Vikram Venkatram shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The article discusses how rapidly advancing biotechnology and AI are reshaping biosecurity, highlighting both the promise of new scientific tools and the need for stronger, adaptive safeguards.

How AI is changing the world of HR

Axios
| December 5, 2025

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert analysis in an article published by Axios. The article discusses how HR departments are increasingly using AI tools for recruiting, performance management, and workplace operations while also navigating significant reliability and privacy risks.

China’s AI warpath

Politico
| December 3, 2025

CSET’s Emelia Probasco shared her expert insights in a newsletter published by Politico. The newsletter highlights China’s push to integrate artificial intelligence into its military through military-civil fusion, leveraging commercial tech and research institutions to accelerate battlefield planning, cyber operations, and intelligence analysis.

The hottest new AI company is…Google?

CNN
| November 29, 2025

CSET’s Jacob Feldgoise shared his expert analysis in an article published by CNN. The article discusses the differences between Google’s custom Tensor chips and Nvidia’s GPUs, and how these distinctions shape the AI hardware landscape.