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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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Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, reviews CSET Senior Faculty Fellow Ben Buchanan's latest book, which highlights the landscape of subtle but persistent cyber attacks that are changing statecraft.

"The massive [CORD-19] Dataset ...houses over 12,000 full text articles in 'machine-readable form.'" The CSET-led project is accelerating scientific discoveries in the fight against COVID-19.

"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.