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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's Melissa Flagg spoke with Axios about her recent research on global investment in R&D. While the U.S. global share has fallen, the R&D of the United States and its allies accounts for more than 50% of global R&D, she argued.

CSET's Founding Director Jason Matheny was interviewed about the National Security Commission on AI's recommendation that the government establish a senior national security point of contact for AI and convene a multilateral working group with allies.

Washington moves to mimic Beijing on tech subsidies

National Journal
| June 14, 2020

CSET Director of Strategy Helen Toner weighs in on the U.S. government's growing interest in direct investments to support continued technology innovation.

"Today, the United States and its allies and partners are not cooperating but competing for Chinese talent," writes CSET's Remco Zwetsloot in Brookings TechStream. He offers an agenda for multilateral collaboration on talent and technology transfer.

A U.S. Secret Weapon in A.I.: Chinese Talent

The New York Times
| June 9, 2020

International talent plays a pivotal role in America’s AI advantage. “Through 2018, nine out of 10 Chinese nationals who completed doctorate degrees stayed for at least five years after graduation,” writes The New York Times, citing CSET research.

CyberLaw Podcast: Whaling at Scale

Steptoe & Johnson
| June 8, 2020

"Does machine learning get offensive actors anything they don't already have?" asks Ben Buchanan, Director of CSET's CyberAI program. He joined the CyberLaw podcast to discuss the impacts of AI on offensive and defensive cyber operations.

"Unlike some earlier national security technologies, the commercial sector plays an outsize role in AI development." This raises important questions about how antitrust enforcement might affect the Pentagon's ability to access AI innovation.

CSET research on top AI hubs in the United States was cited twice in this roundup of AI news: about centers of AI employment, and about focal points of AI industry funding.

“There are different ways that one could define military connections to the PLA in China," said CSET's Remco Zwetsloot. "Obviously it’s a very opaque system and there’s a way to cast a very broad net and there’s a way to cast a very narrow net.” He spoke with Inside Higher Ed about U.S. technology talent flows and policies.

America’s Supply Chain Needs High-Skilled Migrants

The Wall Street Journal
| May 28, 2020

American chip companies depend on foreign graduates and workers, write Remco Zwetsloot and Will Hunt. New large-scale immigration restrictions, if successful, will hamstring efforts to bring home advanced semiconductor manufacturing.