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In the news section, our experts take center stage in shaping discussions on technology and policy. Discover articles featuring insights from our experts or citing our research. CSET’s insights and research are pivotal in shaping key conversations within the evolving landscape of emerging technology and policy.

Dewey Murdick and Miriam Vogel shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by Fortune. In their piece, they highlight the urgent need for the United States to strengthen its AI literacy and incident reporting systems to maintain global leadership amid rapidly advancing international competition, especially from China’s booming AI sector.

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CSET study shows that 16% of Chinese students study STEM in the US, as hateful sentiment directed toward Asian and Asian-Americans amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Cyberoperations are almost ordinary, they happen every single day. This threat is constant. Nearly everyone is on the front lines of this global competition, not just the big players," said Director of CSET's Cybersecurity and AI Project Ben Buchanan. Buchanan notes that nation-state hacking is a part of the new era of espionage.

CSET Research Analyst Emily Weinstein sits down with the ChinaTalk podcast to discuss her CSET research on China's open source information, China's brain drain, and the Military-Civil Fusion strategy.

“Government and industry need to be more thoughtful now that technologies are advancing to a point where you could be doing real-time surveillance using a single supercomputer on millions of people potentially." CSET Founding Director Jason Matheny advocates for American technology to take responsibility over how its products are being used.

The U.S.-China split in space

Axios
| November 17, 2020

Axios' article on the divided U.S.-China space collaboration highlighted reports by CSET's Matthew Daniels and Lorand Laskai for a project of the Johns Hopkins' Applied Research Laboratory.

CSET survey research shows that employees in the AI sector either support working on Department of Defense projects or are neutral. FedScoop highlighted this research in the article below.

In an article about U.S.-China AI competition, EnterpriseAI quoted CSET Founding Director Jason Matheny.

The military is calling in AI for support

Axios Future
| November 14, 2020

Axios Future cited CSET's three-part series, "U.S. Military Investments in Autonomy and AI: Costs, Benefits, and Strategic Effects"

Axios Future covered CSET's Issue Brief, "'Cool Projects' or 'Expanding the Efficiency of the Murderous American War Machine?': AI Professionals' Views on Working With the Department of Defense."

The Future of Data Science

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
| November 4, 2020

CSET Founding Director Jason Matheny presented the keynote address at the virtual colloquium on the future of data science and the implications for privacy and national security hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.