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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 Research Analyst Ryan Fedasiuk discusses President Xi Jinping's use of the internet to serve the PRC.

“Whatever we can do in our technology strategy to maintain that leverage now will have huge geopolitical and strategic relevance in the years ahead,” warns CSET Fellow Saif M. Khan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ahead of the U.S.-China meetings.

CSET Research Fellow Saif M. Khan testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss emerging technology and strategic competition between the United States and China.

CSET Research Analyst Dahlia Peterson discusses China's use of technological tools to enable its widespread surveillance system.

Pentagon, Rivals to Play ‘Cat-and-Mouse Game’ with AI

National Defense Magazine
| March 12, 2021

CSET Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn's work on machine learning vulnerabilities is cited in this article on the Department of Defense's efforts to adopt artificial intelligence technologies for a host of functions.

FedScoop highlighted CSET's "U.S. Military Investments in Autonomy and AI" in a report on U.S. efforts to improve human operator trust in autonomous tools.

CSET Research Analyst Dakota Cary discusses the differences in work culture between cybersecurity workers in China and the United States.

Congress preps for long campaign against Chinese chips

National Journal
| March 11, 2021

Research Analyst Will Hunt discusses the flurry of activity in Congress and elsewhere to address lagging U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity.

MeriTalk highlights CSET Founding Director Jason Matheny's new roles at the White House working on technology and national security policy.

CSET's issue brief "Understanding Chinese Government Guidance Funds" is featured as one of the Essential Eight things to know in the Sinocism China Newsletter.