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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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In an opinion piece for War of the Rocks, CSET's Alex Stephenson and Ryan Fedasiuk give a detailed analysis into the use of AI in a U.S.-Chinese conflict.

According to the Brookings Institution, CSET's report "Harnessed Lightning" gives insight into the China's AI funding.

CSET report "Securing AI" highlights the numbers of ways hackers can compromise AI by targeting its data.

How China’s united front system works overseas

The Strategist
| April 13, 2022

In an opinion piece for The Strategist, Ryan Fedasiuk gives an overview if China's united front system and its foreign facing role.

The China Initiative is Over — Now What?

The Wire China
| April 3, 2022

In an interview with The Wire China, Research Fellow Emily Weinstein discusses the future of research security and collaboration with China with the end of the China Initiative.

To Compete With China, America Must Compete With Itself

The National Interest
| March 26, 2022

In an opinion piece for The National Interest, Research Analysts Dakota Cary and Ali Crawford make the case for the use of U.S. federal prize competitions to spur innovation to compete with China.

AI-powered disinformation, present and future

Towards Data Science
| March 23, 2022

Research Fellow Katerina Sedova joined the Towards Data Science podcast to discuss malicious applications of AI.

Will China Set Global Tech Standards?

China File
| March 22, 2022

Director of Strategy Helen Toner explored China's tech standards in China File.

Nvidia hack could help China according to CSET's policy.ai newsletter.

Research Analyst Dakota Cary discusses China's use of cyber schools to strengthen its cyber talent.