Tag Archive: Cybersecurity

In an opinion piece for The Diplomat, Ellen Lu and CSET's Ryan Fedasiuk examine whether China's new data regulations will hamper AI ambitions.

Soon, the Hackers Won’t Be Human

Foreign Affairs
| December 10, 2021

In an opinion piece for Foreign Affairs, CyberAI Director John Bansemer unpacks how AI can be leveraged for cyberattacks, while also bolstering cyber defense.

Findings from CSET's report "AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns, Part 1: The RICHDATA Framework" offers insight into the use of AI and machine learning to amplify disinformation campaigns.

AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns

Katerina Sedova, Christine McNeill, Aurora Johnson, Aditi Joshi, and Ido Wulkan
| December 2021

Artificial intelligence offers enormous promise to advance progress, and powerful capabilities to disrupt it. This policy brief is the first installment of a series that examines how advances in AI could be exploited to enhance operations that automate disinformation. Introducing the RICHDATA framework—a disinformation kill chain—this report describes the stages and techniques used by human operators to build disinformation campaigns.

In an op-ed for TechCrunch, CSET Research Analyst Dakota Cary examines China's evolution of state-sponsored hackers for cyber espionage.

Harnessed Lightning

Ryan Fedasiuk, Jennifer Melot, and Ben Murphy
| October 2021

This report examines nearly 350 artificial intelligence-related equipment contracts awarded by the People’s Liberation Army and state-owned defense enterprises in 2020 to assess how the Chinese military is adopting AI. The report identifies China’s key AI defense industry suppliers, highlights gaps in U.S. export control policies, and contextualizes the PLA’s AI investments within China’s broader strategy to compete militarily with the United States.

CSET's September webinar with experts Andrew Lohn, Katerina Sedova, and Micah Musser raise alarms on how AI technology, specifically GPT-3, can generate disinformation.

Does AI Present a New Attack Surface for Adversaries?

Air Force Magazine
| September 29, 2021

CSET's machine learning primer "Hacking AI" illustrates how hackers can access AI systems and argues for policymakers to build a robust and transparent AI for military systems.

CSET Research Analyst Dakota Cary discusses China's new Data Security Law and the effects of its cyber vulnerability disclosure provisions to hack other countries.

CSET's Anna Puglisi discusses China's use of personal data from her testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.