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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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CSET's Anna Puglisi discusses U.S. national security concerns over the use of genetic data from prenatal tests for research and testing by the Chinese military.

Rethinking Research Security

Lawfare
| June 24, 2021

In an opinion piece for Lawfare, Emily Weinstein and her coauthor Ainikki Riikonen argue that the U.S. Department of Justices' China Initiative is counterproductive to U.S. innovation and offer recommendations to improve research security.

Andrew Lohn's latest CSET brief emphasizes the difficulties in detecting machine learning attacks as the Department of Defense grapples with ensuring AI safety standards are met.

Do Colleges Need a Foreign Policy?

The Chronicle of Higher Education
| June 22, 2021

As colleges maneuver around ongoing international relations, a CSET report argues that research is becoming more globalized.

Emily Weinstein's latest Lawfare article offers a primer on the Biden administration's China sanctions.

The Titan of Taiwan

The Wire China
| June 13, 2021

Research Analyst Will Hunt discusses the evolution of Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing company TSMC, and its proprietary protection measures against Chinese cyberattacks.

CSET Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn weighs in on newly-reintroduced legislation banning federal agencies from using facial recognition technology.

CSET's Ryan Fedasiuk discusses China's use of technology companies to strengthen the government's authority over personal data under the Personal Information Protection Law.

CSET's Director of Strategy Helen Toner discussed with Wired CSET's collaboration with Partnership on AI to create the AI Incident Database.

CSET Senior Fellow Anna Puglisi emphasizes the Chinese government's policies to incentivize academic researchers to engage in economic espionage and undermine global norms of collaboration.