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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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"AI is very different from other security-relevant technologies, in that the private sector is in the driver's seat." Zach Arnold and Ashwin Acharya joined the ChinaTalk podcast to discuss their work at CSET on AI investment.

The CSET-coordinated Covid-19 Open Research Dataset "compiles relevant data and adds new research into one centralized hub. ...As of publication, there are more than 128,000 scholarly articles on Covid-19, coronavirus, SARS, MERS, and other relevant terms."

What Could Stifle American AI Innovation?

The Next Platform
| May 21, 2020

"Changing the composition of tech companies could open the doors for a new generation of firms to challenge incumbents and collectively move forward American AI innovation." The Next Platform spoke with Dakota Foster to discuss how antitrust action might affect the tech sector.

CSET's Dewey Murdick has helped organize a multi-institutional effort to use machine learning techniques to drive new scientific discoveries relevant to COVID-19.

CSET's CyberAI project released an issue brief, "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence," to chart the path for national security policymakers in cybersecurity and AI.

“The U.S. and its allies comprise almost two-thirds of global R&D,” noted CSET’s Andrew Imbrie during the Brookings Institution's Global China webinar. “There’s extraordinary ways we can try to leverage that pool of R&D and coordinate on shared priorities.”

Antitrust actions could impact Defense artificial intelligence capabilities, says CSET's new report. CSET's report was cited in Kitchen Sync.

In partnership with the White House, the National Library of Medicine, Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Microsoft Research, and Kaggle, CSET launched the CORD-19 database to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Citing a CSET report on AI talent, this articles makes the case that blocking Chinese talent will ultimately hinder American competitiveness. 

How to use the next stimulus to counter China

The Washington Post
| May 11, 2020

In order to maintain the democratic advantage in chip production, the United States must work with allies and partners to limit China's access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. This op-ed cites a recent CSET report by Saif M. Khan and Carrick Flynn on state-of-the-art semiconductor fabs.