In the battlefield, unmanned systems can “go wrong because the technical challenges are significant, especially for ground operations,” warns CSET Research Fellow Rita Konaev.

CSET's Helen Toner highlights OpenAI's delayed release of GPT-2 and the increased attention it brought to publication norms in the AI research community in 2019. This piece was featured in In the Shanghai Institute for Science of Science's "AI Governance in 2019" report.

“There’s a case to be made that AI will help to solve some of the central problems of authoritarian regimes,” says CyberAI Director Ben Buchanan. “We need to think quite seriously about how to combat this and use this technology for democratic purposes.”

Artificial intelligence poses unique challenges in a complex policy landscape. Programs in AI education for congressional staff—like the one piloted by CSET’s Ben Buchanan—could help national security professionals navigate this landscape.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Hewlett Foundation, CSET is launching a new Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence project to be led by Ben Buchanan. The project will examine the potential risks of AI in cyberspace and national security.

CSET’s Ben Buchanan joined Federal Drive to discuss the new project he’s spearheading, CyberAI. It will examine the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Accelerating threats to cybersecurity, the impact of automation on cyber defense, and the degree to which cyber operations will become faster and more powerful are among the subjects that CSET will now start to explore thanks to a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Jason Matheny said the intelligence community has spent a lot of time looking at ways to use an adversary’s AI tools against them. “You can get a tank that is covered with a sort of form of digital camouflage ... that causes a machine learning classifier to think that it’s a school bus."

A new research center, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, was launched this year within the SFS to study and advise policymakers on the intersection of AI and national security, and in September, the university hosted a conference on that same topic.

CSET expert Ben Buchanan testifies to Congress on vulnerabilities and need for defense using the latest AI tools.