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Tracking AI Chips: What Does It Cost?

Jacob Feldgoise, Kyle Miller, and Hanna Dohmen
| September 29, 2026

In an accompanying report, we found that two methods are best for verifying the location of AI chips: ping-based location verification (PLV) and physical inspections. This piece compares these two methods through a cost-benefit analysis and shows that PLV is the more cost-effective approach. We conclude that the most effective location verification approach would likely involve a PLV system that is supplemented by small numbers of physical inspections.

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Chinese Talent Program Tracker

Emily S. Weinstein
| November 2020

China operates a number of party- and state-sponsored talent programs to recruit researchers -- Chinese citizens and non-citizens alike -- to bolster its strategic civilian and military goals. CSET has created a tracker to catalog publicly available information about these programs. This catalog is a work in progress; if you have further information on programs currently not included in it -- or if you spot an error -- please complete the form at http://bit.ly/ChineseTalent

Forecasting the Election’s Effect on American Opinion of China

Catherine Aiken and Michael Page
| November 2, 2020

Foretell was CSET's crowd forecasting pilot project focused on technology and security policy. It connected historical and forecast data on near-term events with the big-picture questions that are most relevant to policymakers. In January 2022, Foretell became part of a larger forecasting program to support U.S. government policy decisions called INFER, which is run by the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland and Cultivate Labs.

America’s Future Lies in Technical Alliances

Melissa Flagg
| January 8, 2020

Prevailing frameworks ignore the uniqueness of America’s R&D ecosystem and the tremendous expansion of global R&D beyond China. The United States must recognize the power of R&D as a cornerstone of the modern global landscape.

Thoughts on Russia’s AI Strategy

Margarita Konaev
| October 30, 2019

On October 10th, 2019, Russia released its national artificial intelligence strategy. Margarita Konaev analyzed the strategy in the context of Moscow's larger strategic vision.