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In the news section, our experts take center stage in shaping discussions on technology and policy. Discover articles featuring insights from our experts or citing our research. CSET’s insights and research are pivotal in shaping key conversations within the evolving landscape of emerging technology and policy.

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an op-ed published by Fortune. The article examines how an AI-driven cyberattack on Hugging Face highlights a major blind spot in current AI policy and argues that oversight must expand beyond pre-release testing to address risks from advanced AI systems used internally by companies.

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CSET's Dewey Murdick has helped organize a multi-institutional effort to use machine learning techniques to drive new scientific discoveries relevant to COVID-19.

CSET's CyberAI project released an issue brief, "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence," to chart the path for national security policymakers in cybersecurity and AI.

“The U.S. and its allies comprise almost two-thirds of global R&D,” noted CSET’s Andrew Imbrie during the Brookings Institution's Global China webinar. “There’s extraordinary ways we can try to leverage that pool of R&D and coordinate on shared priorities.”

Antitrust actions could impact Defense artificial intelligence capabilities, says CSET's new report. CSET's report was cited in Kitchen Sync.

In partnership with the White House, the National Library of Medicine, Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Microsoft Research, and Kaggle, CSET launched the CORD-19 database to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Citing a CSET report on AI talent, this articles makes the case that blocking Chinese talent will ultimately hinder American competitiveness. 

How to use the next stimulus to counter China

The Washington Post
| May 11, 2020

In order to maintain the democratic advantage in chip production, the United States must work with allies and partners to limit China's access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. This op-ed cites a recent CSET report by Saif M. Khan and Carrick Flynn on state-of-the-art semiconductor fabs.

According to a recent CSET report by Saif M. Khan, if the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands "deny access to this specialized equipment, China would find it nearly impossible to develop or maintain advanced chip factories for the foreseeable future.”

"Technology is fundamental to cyber operations on offense and defense," said CSET's Ben Buchanan on the question of AI and cybersecurity. "The reason why AI is important is that there’s just so much data that you need a machine to be able to do the first pass through the data [during offensive and defensive operations]."

Sony chief: Mobility is the next megatrend

Financial Times
| May 6, 2020

The FT’s Tech Scroll Asia covers a report by CSET’s Saif Khan and Carrick Flynn detailing China’s dependence on the United States for specialized AI chip manufacturing equipment.