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1 big thing: AI could soon improve on its own

Axios
| January 27, 2026

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.

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House Hearing Airs Cases For and Against Semiconductor Funding Surge

American Institute of Physics
| August 10, 2021

CSET's Will Hunt advocates for the CHIPS Act as part of his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee to strengthen the U.S.' semiconductor industry.

Drawing from his research, Andrew Lohn discusses GPT-3's ability to create disinformation at the 2021 Black Hat conference.

CSET's Anna Puglisi discusses China's counterintelligence efforts in the private sector and academia in her testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Chinese Cyberthreats: The Impact on National Security

Gov Info Security
| August 5, 2021

In her testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CSET Senior Fellow Anna Puglisi discussing U.S. implications if China loses its "technological edge" to China.

In their Black Hat Talk, CSET's Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser discuss their research using GPT-3 and its ability to create disinformation from their publication "Truth, Lies, and Automation."

Congress moves to unify ‘disjointed’ R&D effort

National Journal
| July 27, 2021

CSET's Director of CyberAI John Bansemer weighs in on the National Science and Technology Act as part of Congress' strategy to boost science and tech innovation while authorizing R&D spending.

According to a CSET study Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, Facebook and Apple are the six tech companies that spend the most on AI R&D.

CSET Helen Toner weighs in on the Biden administration's China tech policy amidst the ongoing U.S.-China strategic competition.

CSET's Melissa Flagg and Jack Corrigan's latest report urges the U.S. Department to stop being innovation tourists.

Melissa Flagg and Jack Corrigan's latest policy brief urges for the U.S. Department of Defense to use more private sector innovation.